Chaoshan

Chao·shan
C3H4A1O1S1H4A1N1

proper noun

A region in eastern Guangdong, China, home of the Swatow, Jieyang and Teochew people. Historically composed of 8 counties belonging to the department of Chaozhou (潮州府), today it is equivalent to the 3 cities of Chaozhou, Shantou, and Jieyang.

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alternative Ch'ao-shan

  1. A region in eastern Guangdong, China, home of the Swatow, Jieyang and Teochew people. Historically composed of 8 counties belonging to the department of Chaozhou (潮州府), today it is equivalent to the 3 cities of Chaozhou, Shantou, and Jieyang.

    The first season of this culinary series explores the history and ingredients of food from Chaoshan, a coastal region in the eastern Guangdong province of China, with dazzling, mouthwatering visuals.

    2019 February 11, Sara Aridi, “What’s on TV Monday: ‘Hale County This Morning, This Evening’ and ‘White Dragon’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2019, What to Watch
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    The extant scholarship on Sinophone Thai literature attributes the uniqueness of such works as Stormy Yaowarat Road to three aspects of their evocation of Teochew: their use of the Chaoyang-Swatow (Chaoshan) dialect of Teochew (particularly in the spoken dialogues of the text), their depiction of specific Teochew cultural practices like the regions' unique opera (ngiu) and tea ceremony (gongfu cha), and their emphasis on Teochew cultural and linguistic cultivation and preservation-an emphasis woven into the theme of the narratives.

    2015, Brian C. Bernards, Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180

    Synonyms: Teoswa

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA region in eastern Guangdong, China, home of the Swatow, Jieyang and Teochew people. Historically composed of 8 counties belonging to the department of Chaozhou (潮州府), today it is equivalent to the 3 cities of Chaozhou, Shantou, and Jieyang.

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Origin

  1. Mandarin潮汕
  2. EnglishChaoshan

From Mandarin 潮汕 (Cháoshàn).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 潮汕
  • 潮汕 (ciu⁴ saan³)region of northeastern Guangdong
Chinese Mandarin 潮汕
  • 潮汕 (Cháoshàn)region of northeastern Guangdong

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APA

Chaoshan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chaoshan

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“Chaoshan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chaoshan. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Chaoshan,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chaoshan.

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