Shaoguan

English

Alternative forms

• Shaokuan, Shao-kuan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 韶關 / 韶关 (Sháoguān).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃaʊˈɡwɑn/

Proper noun

Shaoguan

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China.
   • 2007, James A. Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang‎^[2], London: Hurst & Company, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 368:

     The transfers began in the early 2000s, and by the first half of 2009, nearly 100,000 Uyghur workers had been sent east under this programme. Several hundred of them were working from May 2009 in the Xuri Toy Factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong, a facility that made toys for Hasboro, Mattel and other international companies.

   • 2009 July 7, Disha Uppal, “Tension Remains High in Xinjiang”, in Anne Thomas, editor, Deutsche Welle‎^[3], archived from the original on 28 January 2024‎^[4]:

     The region has been simmering since a factory brawl in the southern Chinese city Shaoguan last month that killed two Uighurs.

Synonyms

• (from Cantonese, Postal Romanization) Shiukwan

Translations

prefecture-level city in Guangdong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 韶關 / 韶关 (siu⁴ gwaan¹)

  Mandarin: 韶關 / 韶关 (zh) (Sháoguān)