Meanings
- A county of Fangchenggang, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
The Yongping garrison was located between Siming prefecture and Môn Châu, or modern-day Na Cham. The Qianlong garrison was located at modern-day Shangsi county in southern Guangxi.
2007, James Anderson, “Notes”, in The Rebel Den of Nùng Trí Cao: Loyalty and Identity Along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier, University of Washington Press; NUS Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2131 more example
In 1974, about 1,300 educated young people from Peihai Municipality settled in the countryside, 200 of them on (Napu) and (Chuchun) brigades in mountainous Shangssu County.[…] The 18 educated youth groups in Shangssu County formed parents' groups.
[1975 May 28 [1975 May 27], “The Parents' Group Is Good”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 103, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Nanning Kwangsi Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 2
Origin
- Mandarin上思
- EnglishShangsi
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 上思 (Shàngsī).
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Chinese Cantonese 上思
- 上思 (soeng⁶ si¹)county
Chinese Mandarin 上思
- 上思 (Shàngsī)county
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Shangsi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shangsi
“Shangsi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shangsi. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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