Shangnan

Shang·nan
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proper noun

A county of Shangluo, Shaanxi, China.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Shangluo, Shaanxi, China.

    A $43,000 system purchased by police in central China’s Shangnan county included a “foreign sensitive information” collection system that requested Uyghur and Tibetan staff translators, according to the contracts.

    2021 December 31, Cate Cadell, “China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Dec 2021, National Security
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    This action altered his behaviour for the time being, but in the evening he escaped again at the hsien-town of Shangnan.[...]At Shangnan the population was complaining of the same drought that had hindered us from getting a boat at Lungchüchai; and in the evening the villages formed a long procession firing crackers and beating gongs, in order to induce the rain-joss to send some water.

    1923, Frits Holm, My Nestorian Adventure in China, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, →OL, pages 193–195

    Ninety-nine percent of the brigades in Shanglo Prefecture have set up cooperative medical stations, and treatment in 80 percent of them is totally or partially free. In Shangnan County, all brigades have set up cooperative medical stations, of which 96 percent are totally or partially free.

    1976 August 27 [1976 August 25], “Shensi Medical Care”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 168, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page M 2

    Hu Xufeng, 36, a member of the People’s Congress of Shangnan county, Shaanxi province, claimed the unusually high level of compensation because his detention caused “destructive damage” to his business, he told news portal Thepaper.cn.

    2016 August 11, Jun Mai, “Chinese lawmaker seeks 130m yuan compensation from police for ‘illegal’ detention”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2016, Policies & Politics

Origin

  1. Mandarin商南
  2. EnglishShangnan

From Mandarin 商南.

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 商南
  • 商南county
Chinese Mandarin 商南
  • 商南county
Cite this entry
APA

Shangnan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shangnan

MLA

“Shangnan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shangnan. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Shangnan,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shangnan.

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