Nanshi
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南市.
Proper noun[edit]
Nanshi
- (historical) A district of Shanghai, China.
- 1996 February 1, Elaine Chan, “Nanshi plans cable car project”, in South China Morning Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 February 2024[2]:
- SHANGHAI'S Nanshi district, which includes the southern Bund area, plans to build a cable car system to Pudong across the Huangpu River to boost retail activities on both banks.
- 2000 April 16, Craig S. Smith, “WHAT'S DOING IN Shanghai”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, WHAT'S DOING IN[4]:
- Farther east is Nanshi, the original walled city of Shanghai. The circular wall is long gone; a road has replaced it. Visitors usually go to the maze of mostly rebuilt Qing dynasty buildings around the Temple of the City God and Yu Yuan Garden.
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Translations[edit]
district
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