Meanings
- historicalA district of Shanghai, China.
SHANGHAI'S Nanshi district, which includes the southern Bund area, plans to build a cable car system to Pudong across the Huangpu River to boost retail activities on both banks.
1996 February 1, Elaine Chan, “Nanshi plans cable car project”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Feb 20242 more examples
Some peasants may have come to teach them how to use a hoe and when to plant, but most of their contacts were with other city people. In 1965, a group of 150 volunteers from Nanshih District, Shanghai, founded the Hsints’un (New Village) Brigade, in T’aochuang Commune of Chiashan County, Chekiang.
[1978, Lynn T. White, III, “Citizenship Incentives”, in Careers in Shanghai: The Social Guidance of Personal Energies in a Developing Chinese City, 1949-1966, Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 88Farther east is Nanshi, the original walled city of Shanghai. The circular wall is long gone; a road has replaced it. Visitors usually go to the maze of mostly rebuilt Qing dynasty buildings around the Temple of the City God and Yu Yuan Garden.
2000 April 16, Craig S. Smith, “WHAT'S DOING IN Shanghai”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, WHAT'S DOING INSynonyms: Nantao
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA district of Shanghai, China.
Origin
- Mandarin南市
- EnglishNanshi
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南市.
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Chinese Mandarin 南市
- 南市district
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Nanshi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nanshi
“Nanshi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nanshi. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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