Etymology

Chungshan

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The story

Borrowed from Mandarin 中山 (Zhōngshān) Wade–Giles romanization: Chung¹-shan¹. Chungshan is also a romanization of Cantonese 中山 (zung1 saan1), the name of the city in Guangdong, China, and it coincides with its Mandarin romanization of Chungshan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.