Heshan

See also: héshān, héshàn, Héshān, and Hèshān

English

Alternative forms

• Ho-shan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 鶴山／鹤山 (Hèshān).

Proper noun

Heshan

1. A county-level city and former county of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
   • 2013 July 13, “World Digest: July 13, 2013”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 July 2018, World:

     Local authorities in a southern Chinese city abandoned a plan to build a uranium-processing plant one day after hundreds of local residents protested against it because of safety concerns. The $6 billion project, proposed for the city of Heshan in Guangdong province, was part of national efforts to reduce China’s reliance on coal and boost the use of clean energy.

2. A district of Hebi, Henan, China
3. A town and former township in Ningyang, Tai'an, Shandong, China

Synonyms

• (city in Guangdong): (from Cantonese) Hok Shan, Hokshan, Hok San, Hoksan

Translations

city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鶴山 / 鹤山 (zh) (Hèshān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Heshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[2], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1274, column 3

Anagrams

• Shehan, ah nehs