Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Shantou.
1921, March 18. The Chinese steamship Hong Koh sank near Swatow (Shan-t'ou); approximately 1,000 were killed.
1996, David Ritche, Shipwrecks: An Encyclopedia of the World's Worst Disasters at Sea, Facts On File, →ISBN, page 2682 more examples
Thus, the northeastward movement of the Yao after their arrival in Kuang-tung brought them into the Ch'ao-chou and Shan-t'ou (Swatow) sector of the province and later into Fu-chien and Che-chiang Provinces.
1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 991931, 9 August, Fuyan Island, near Fuchou, China The steamship, Kwong Sang, was wrecked here during a typhoon while bound from Shanghai to Shan-t'ou with a crew of six British officers and forty-four Chinese.
1979, Kenneth Hudson, Ann Nicholls, Tragedy on the High Seas, A & W Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128
Origin
- Mandarin汕頭 /汕头
- EnglishShan-t'ou
From Mandarin 汕頭 /汕头 (Shàntóu), Wade–Giles romanization: Shan⁴-tʻou².
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