Meishan

English

Alternative forms

• Mei-shan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 眉山 (Méishān).

Pronunciation

• enPR: māʹshänʹ

Proper noun

Meishan

1. A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
   • 1946, Joseph T. Shipley, editor, Encyclopedia of Literature‎^[1], volume 2, Ferris Printing Company, →OCLC, page 1171‎^[2]:

     SU SHIH (Chinese, 1036-1101), better known as Su Tung-p'o, an almost universal genius and a great favorite with the Chinese literary public, was a native of Meishan, Szechuan Province.

   • 2005, Volker Olles, Scriptures, Schools, and Forms of Practice in Daoism‎^[3], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 237:

     About ten kilometers east of today’s district town, we find a ridge of hills that forms a natural borderline with neighboring Meishan 眉山 County, once home to the famous Song dynasty poet Su Dongpo 蘇東坡 (1037-1101).

   • 2018 July 25, Se Young Lee, “Chinese police break up $1.5-billion pyramid scheme, snare 82 suspects”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 09 May 2022, Emerging Markets:

     Police in Meishan City in the southwestern province of Sichuan said the suspects set up hundreds of shell companies and 28 fake industrial chains and lured investors with promises of high returns, it added.

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

Translations

prefecture-level city in Sichuan

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 眉山 (zh) (Méishān)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Meishan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1943, column 2

Anagrams

• Animesh, Heimans, Hsia-men, Shimane, haemins, meanish