Wushan

See also: Wu-shan

English

Alternative forms

• Wu-shan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 巫山 (Wūshān).

Pronunciation

• enPR: wo͞oʹshänʹ

Proper noun

Wushan

1. A county of Chongqing, China.
   • 1905 June 17, E. H. Wilson, “LEAVES FROM MY CHINESE NOTE-BOOK”, in The Gardeners' Chronicle‎^[2], number 964, page 384:

     On the cliffs opposite Kui Spiræa Thunbergii occurs. It is quite common in the Wushan gorge, but I did not find it nearer Ichang than here.

   • 1995, Xinzhi Wu, Frank E. Poirier, “Homo erectus”, in Human Evolution in China: A Metric Description of Fossils and a Review of the Sites‎^[3], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 108:

     According to Gu and Fang (1991a), two human fossils were unearthed from this site situated in Wushan County in the eastern part of Sichuan Province in central China.

   • 2008 August 2, Andrew Torchia, “Corrupt China official betrayed by leaky toilet”, in Andrew Roche, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 05 August 2022, Technology, Media and Telecommunications‎^[5]:

     Yan Dabin, a former director of transport for Wushan County near the southwestern city of Chongqing, was sentenced on Friday for taking bribes totaling 22.3 million yuan ($3.3 million) from road building companies, Xinhua said.

2. A town in Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China.
3. A village in Wushan, Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China.

Translations

county in western China; town in western China; village in western China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巫山 (zh) (Wūshān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wushan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3495, column 3
• Wushan, Wu-shan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.