Jishan

See also: jīshàn and Jìshān

English

Alternative forms

• Chi-shan, Chishan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 稷山 (Jìshān).

Pronunciation

• enPR: jēʹshänʹ, -shăn
• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈʃɑn/, /-ʃæn/

Proper noun

Jishan

1. A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
   • 2010, De-Yuan Hong, “History of Taxonomic Studies of Paeonia”, in Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography‎^[2], Kew Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 19:

     In their first paper (T. Hong et al., 1992), Paeonia ostii was described as a new tree peony that is widely cultivated in China for medicine; P. jishanensis was described as a new species from Jishan County, Shanxi Province, and was stated to differ from P. suffruticosa var. spontanea Rehder in having white flowers and non-petaloid stamens; P. yananensis was based on a specimen from a forest near the Peony Garden in Yan’an, Shaanxi Province; and P. suffruticosa subsp. rockii S. G. Haw & Lauener was raised to specific rank, but this new combination was invalid.

   • 2012 [2008 February 19], Xiaobo Liu, “Imprisoning People for Words and the Power of Public Opinion”, in Louisa Chiang, transl., No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems‎^[3], Belknap Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212:

     The Jishan Article Case In April 2007, Nan Huirong, Xue Zhijing and Yang Qinyu, three technology officials in Jishan County, Shanxi Province, wrote an article that expressed discontent with the situation in Jishan, criticized County Party Secretary Li Runshan in a number of ways, and adduced evidence to back their complaints.

   • 2016, Jeehee Hong, “Theater of the Dead”, in Theater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000-1400‎^[4], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75:

     In addition, nine tombs of the Duan family cemetery with extravagant interior wall reliefs, known as the Macun Tombs, were found in the village of Macun in Jishan County, forty-five miles west of Houma.

   • 2022 January 1, Min Zhang, Tony Munroe, “China reports 191 new COVID-19 cases for Jan 1 vs 231 day earlier”, in Neil Fullick, editor, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 03 January 2022, China‎^[6]:

     Medical workers in protective suits collect swabs from residents at a nucleic acid testing site during a third round of mass testing following cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Yuncheng's Jishan county, Shanxi province, China December 29, 2021.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jishan.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 稷山 (zh) (Jìshān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Jishan, Tsi-shan, Chishan, Chi-shan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jishan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1452, column 2

Anagrams

• Jhansi, Janish, Jinsha, Jin Sha