Sanshui
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Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin[1] 三水 (Sānshuǐ, literally “three waters”).
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Sanshui
- A district of Foshan, Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China.
- 1978 May 28, “Drought striken North”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIX, number 21, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
- People in some 10 counties along the West River basin in Kwangtung Province have been mobilized to join in flood-fighting or disaster relief work, with more than 10,000 in Sanshui County alone.
- 2018 March 4, Huiwen Ng, “Grandma Mary to star in reality talent show Chinese Dream Show”, in The Straits Times, archived from the original on 04 March 2018:
- This month, she will travel to the Sanshui District in Guangdong province to begin recording the show. The 10th season of Chinese Dream Show began last Sunday (Feb 25).
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Samshui”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1659, column 1: “Mandarin Sanshui (sänʹshwāʹ)”
Further reading
- Sanshui, San-shui, Samshui at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Sanshui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2786, column 2