Sanmenxia

English

Alternative forms

• San-men-hsia, Sanmenhsia (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 三門峽／三门峡 (Sānménxiá).

Proper noun

Sanmenxia

1. A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
   • [1961 January [1960], “Basic Shifts in the Structure and Distribution of China's Industry”, in Soviet Geography: Review & Translation, volume II, number 1, New York: American Geographical Society, sourced from Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, seriya geografiya, 1960, No. 2, Pages 28-32 (Вестник Московского университета), translation of original by I. Kh. Ovdiyenko (in Russian), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52:

     China's largest hydroelectric station is under construction at Sanmensia, and will supply power to the industrial centers of Loyang, Sian and Chengchow.]

   • 2013 February 1, “China highway collapse”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[2], archived from the original on February 02, 2024‎^[3]:

     Several vehicles were reported to have fallen from the elevated section of the highway after a truck laden with fireworks exploded, severely damaging a roughly 80-meter (262-foot) section of the road.
     The incident occurred near the city of Sanmenxia, to the east of Xi'an, in the inland, eastern province of Henan.

   • 2019 April 14, Paul Mozur, “One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-14, Technology‎^[5]:

     Law enforcement in the central Chinese city of Sanmenxia, along the Yellow River, ran a system that over the course of a month this year screened whether residents were Uighurs 500,000 times.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三門峽／三门峡 (zh) (Sānménxiá)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: सानमनशिआ (sānmanśiā)

Further reading

• Sanmenxia, San-men-hsia, Sanmenhsia at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Sanmenxia”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2785, column 3