Etymology

Sanshui

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Today it means: A district of Foshan, Guangdong, China; a former county of Guangdong, China. Full definition →

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The story

Borrowed from Mandarin 三水 (Sānshuǐ, literally “three waters”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.