Kunshan

English

Alternative forms

• K'un-shan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 崑山／昆山 (Kūnshān).

Proper noun

Kunshan

1. A county-level city in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
   • 1976 December 19, “Armed conflict incidents rise”, in Free China Weekly‎^[1], volume XVII, number 50, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     An armed conflict between Hua Kuo-feng’s supporters and elements of the “gang of four” in Kunshan County, Kiangsu Province, ended with about 200 killed in mid-November, according to an intelligence report reaching Taipei Dec. 14.

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

Translations

county-level city in Jiangsu

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 崑山／昆山 (kwan¹ saan¹)

  Mandarin: 崑山／昆山 (zh) (Kūnshān)

Further reading

• Kunshan, K'un-shan, Kun-shan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Kunshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[2], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1631, column 2