Hongshan

Hong·shan
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proper noun

A district of Wuhan, Hubei, in central China.

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Meanings

Hongshan1

proper noun

alternative Hung-shan

  1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, in central China.

    For instance, in the Hongshan district, Zhuodaoquan North Road (卓刀泉北路) is designated as “The Most Beautiful Flowery Street.”

    2020, Rebecca Clothey, Richardson Dilworth, China's Urban Future and the Quest for Stability, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 89
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    German-based Metro Cash & Carry, one of the most successful foreign retail groups in China, has one of its 15 mainland stores in the Hongshan district of Wuhan and has plans for another outlet in the city.

    2002, The China Business Handbook 2002, Hong Kong: Alain Charles Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 195

    In addition to interviews at the provincial level, I conducted interviews with municipal officials in Wuhan, district officials in Hongshan District, and township and village leaders in one township within the district.

    2006, Tyrene White, China's Longest Campaign: Birth Planning in the People's Republic, 1949-2005, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17

    People line up at a hospital designated to test the discharged COVID patients and people from the isolation facilities in Hongshan district in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Saturday, March 14, 2020. The province reported no new infections on Thursday after being the epicenter of China's outbreak.

    2020 March 19, Rachel Chang, Claire Che, Bloomberge, “China’s coronavirus epicenter reaches milestone of zero new cases”, in Fortune

    Urban residents were surveyed in two central districts including the Hongshan District and Hangjiang^([sic – meaning Jianghan]) District in Wuhan City as well as the Zhangwan District in Shiyan City.

    2020, Wann-Ming Wey, editor, Sustainable Built Environment and Urban Growth Management, MDPI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 171

    Officials are also tracking unspecified products of the same batch as the softshell turtles that have been shipped elsewhere, said the disease control authority in Wuhan's Hongshan district.

    2022 July 14, Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, “In China's Wuhan, cholera-causing bacteria in turtles strikes nerve”, in Christopher Cushing, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2022, China
  2. A subdistrict of Hongshan district, Wuhan, Hubei, in central China.
  3. A town in Sui, Suizhou, Hubei, in central China.

Hongshan2

proper noun

alternative Hung-shan

  1. Hongshan culture

    Several fragments of reddish-brown clay statuettes of the Hongshan culture, found at Dongshanzui in Kazuo county, Liaoning province and dating to 3500 B.C., all seem to be kneeling or seated figures of about half life-size or smaller.

    1997, Helmut Brinker, “On the Origin of the Human Image in Chinese Art”, in "Visions of Man in Chinese Art" with Selected Japanese Paintings, Kaikodo, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 28
  2. A district of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China.
  3. A town in Yingshan, Huanggang, Hubei, in central China.

Hongshan3

proper noun

alternative Hung-shan

  1. A village in Wanquan, Honghu, Jingzhou, Hubei, in central China.

Origin

Hongshan · proper noun

  1. Mandarin洪山
  2. EnglishHongshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洪山 (Hóngshān).

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Hongshan · proper noun

  1. Mandarin紅山 /红山
  2. EnglishHongshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅山 /红山 (Hóngshān).

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Hongshan · proper noun

  1. Mandarin洪善
  2. EnglishHongshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洪善 (Hóngshàn).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 洪山, 紅山 /红山
  • 洪山a district in central China; a subdistrict in central China; a town in central China
  • 紅山 /红山culture, district, town, residential community
  • 洪善a village in central China
Chinese Mandarin 洪山, 紅山 /红山
  • 洪山 (Hóngshān)a district in central China; a subdistrict in central China; a town in central China
  • 紅山 /红山 (Hóngshān)culture, district, town, residential community
  • 洪善 (Hóngshàn)a village in central China

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