Meanings
alternative Pai-sha · alternative Paisha
- A subdistrict of Zhongmu, Zhengzhou, Henan, China, formerly a town.
- A rural township in Penghu County, Taiwan.
The magnificent Tongliang Banyan, thought to be more than 200 years old, forms a huge and glorious canopy over the courtyard of Baoan Temple in the village of Tongliang, on Baisha's western tip.
2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1952 more examples
Until a few years ago, it was necessary to take a ferry to travel from one of the three to another, but the three big islands plus several smaller ones in between are today all interconnected by a vast network of bridges. The longest of these, connecting Baisha with Yuweng, is almost two miles in length and is the longest ocean bridge in the Far East.
1979 July, Cornelius C. Kubler, “Life in the Pescadores”, in The Asia Mail, page 12, column 3While recycling plastic and other debris that washes up on beaches and turning them into art has become a trend in the county, the students at Niaoyu Elementary School in Baisha Township’s (白沙) Niaoyu Islet (鳥嶼) are the first to create a musical instrument out of trash.
2019 September 12, Yu-ching Liu, William Hetherington, “Penghu students create musical art from ocean trash”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2019, Taiwan News, page 4 - A subdistrict of Jiangbei district, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China.
- A subdistrict of Sanyuan district, Sanming, Fujian, China.
- A subdistrict of Pengjiang district, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
- A subdistrict of Jiangcheng district, Yangjiang, Guangdong, China.
- A subdistrict of Meilan district, Haikou, Hainan, China.
Origin
- Mandarin白沙
- EnglishBaisha
From the Mandarin 白沙 (Báishā, literally “white sand”).
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Chinese Cantonese 白沙
- 白沙 (baak⁶ saa¹)rural township in northern Penghu (the Pescadores)
Chinese Mandarin 白沙
- 白沙 (Báishā)rural township in northern Penghu (the Pescadores)
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Baisha. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Baisha
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