Lishi

See also: líshì, lǐshī, lǐshì, lìshí, lìshǐ, and lìshì

English

Alternative forms

• Li-shih (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 離石 / 离石 (Líshí).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈli(ˈ)ʃi/

Proper noun

Lishi

1. A district of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
   • 2016, Fang Wang, “Geo-Architecture Blending into Nature”, in Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context‎^[1], volume 3, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 133:

     Geomorphologic Features
     The Lüliang region is located in the western Shanxi Province. Geologist Professor Liu Dongsheng first identified the section drawing of the Lishi Loess in Wangjiagou, Lishi District, LüliangCity.

   • 2017 September 13, Xinqi Su, Viola Zhou, “One of China’s ‘feminist five’ gender equality activists banned from leaving country for decade”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], archived from the original on 13 September 2017:

     Wu said she was determined to fight the decision. On September 6 she mailed documents for a lawsuit of the public security authorities in both Jiaocheng county and Luliang city to a local court in the Lishi district of Luliang.

   • 2018, Fenggang Yang, “North China [华北地区]”, in Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts‎^[3], Brill Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90, column 1:

     Lishi District 离石区 in Lüliang and Xiaodian District 小店区 in Taiyuan had a strikingly high percentage of young population, around 60 percent.

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

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 離石 / 离石 (zh) (Líshí)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lishi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1750, column 3

Anagrams

• ilish