Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Shangluo.
‘The Red River rises in the Chung-ling Hill in the Shang-lo District of the Metropolis [Shensi] and flows into the Cho River. Red fish are produced in it.’
1948, George F. Hervey, Jack Hems, The Goldfish, London: Faber and Faber, published 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 761 more example
Ch'üan Ch'i was the scion of a great family of Feng-yang in Shang-lo [in present-day Shensi province].[...]At the beginning of the Hsiao-ch'ang reign-period [ad 525-7] he held the positions of major-general defending Lo-chou and prefect of Shang-lo.
1973 [1962], Mark Elvin, quoting Tanigawa Michio, “Sino-barbarian synthesis in north China”, in The Pattern of the Chinese Past: A Social and Economic Interpretation, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 46–47
Origin
- Mandarin商洛
- EnglishShang-lo
From Mandarin 商洛 (Shāngluò), Wade–Giles romanization: Shang¹-lo⁴.
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