Sanshui

English

Alternative forms

• San-shui (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 三水 (Sānshuǐ, literally “three waters”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sänʹshwāʹ

Proper noun

Sanshui

1. A district of Foshan, Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China.
   • 1978 May 28, “Drought striken North”, in Free China Weekly‎^[2], volume XIX, number 21, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     People in some 10 counties along the West River basin in Kwangtung Province have been mobilized to join in flood-fighting or disaster relief work, with more than 10,000 in Sanshui County alone.

   • 2018 March 4, Huiwen Ng, “Grandma Mary to star in reality talent show Chinese Dream Show”, in The Straits Times‎^[3], archived from the original on 04 March 2018‎^[4]:

     This month, she will travel to the Sanshui District in Guangdong province to begin recording the show. The 10th season of Chinese Dream Show began last Sunday (Feb 25).

Synonyms

• (from Cantonese) Samshui, Samsui

Translations

district of Foshan, Guangdong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 三水 (saam¹ seoi²)

  Mandarin: 三水 (zh) (Sānshuǐ)

Further reading

• Sanshui, San-shui, Samshui at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Sanshui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2786, column 2

Anagrams

• Hussain