Shizuishan

See also: Shízuǐshān

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 石嘴山 (Shízuǐshān).

Proper noun

Shizuishan

1. A prefecture-level city in Ningxia, China.
   • [1911 March, George Pereira, “A Journey Across the Ordos”, in The Geographical Journal‎^[2], volume XXXVII, number 3, London: Royal Geographical Society, page 264:

     I again entered civilization at Shih-tsui-tzu (officially called Shih-tsui-shan), a wretched town of 700 or 800 houses in a barren sandy plain. Three or four miles further south, however, I entered a very fertile region, between the Yellow river and the rugged A-la-shan, watered by five canals, which are supplied with water from the Yellow river, and which distribute it through countless irrigation channels over the surrounding fields.]

   • [1918 April, Rodney Gilbert, “Pneumonic Plague in China”, in Asia‎^[3], volume XVIII, number 4, American Asiatic Association, page 344, columns 2, 3:

     Moving west from Paotowchen there is only one highway, which many camel trains from Kansu follow in winter, but which is almost deserted in summer when the Yellow River is ice free. This road leads through Santaoho, a Roman Catholic Mission village near the elbow of the river, through Shihtsuishan, where there is a carefully guarded pass and a large garrison, and on into the populous Ninghsia district of Kansu, altogether an eighteen day journey of about 1,300 11 through thinly settled country in which a pestilence would travel with difficulty and in which it could have been most effectually checked at any of half a dozen points.]

   • 1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese‎^[4], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:

     In Shizuishan, Ningxia's northernmost city, there was only one mainly Yihewani mosque before 1949, later destroyed in 1966.

   • 2016 September 28, “Explosion kills 18 in ‘illegal’ coal mine in northern China”, in AP News‎^[5], archived from the original on 21 July 2022:

     Tuesday morning’s explosion occurred at a small coal mine when 20 miners were working underground in the city of Shizuishan in the northwestern region of Ningxia, the official Xinhua News Agency said. State broadcaster CCTV had said in the morning that the blast had killed 19 people, but later reported 18 deaths. […]
     Calls to the Shizuishan city government Wednesday rang unanswered.

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

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石嘴山 (zh) (Shízuǐshān)

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