Shijingshan

Shi·jing·shan
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proper noun

A district of Beijing, China.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A district of Beijing, China.

    In the Shijingshan neighborhood, vaccinated residents were given free entry into all parks — a measure that some Internet users called “a little stingy.”

    2021 April 5, Lily Kuo, Lyric Li, “China’s covid vaccine drive is lagging. Free food could help turn things around.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2021, Asia & Pacific
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    The iron and steel plant of Shih-ching-shan is situated on the Yung-ting Ho, 14 mi. west of the city centre. This plant, first opened in 1920, was completed in 1937 and produced 80,000 tons of pig iron at its peak under Japanese rule. The plant was greatly expanded by the Communists, and annual production increased to more than five times its previous capacity. Beyond Shih-ching-shan, at the end of a rail spur, 20 mi. west of the city centre, are the coal mines of Men-t'ou-kou.

    [1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 533, column 1

    A six-story building was recently completed in Shihchingshan District, Peking Municipality, solving the housing problem for some 130 faculty members of primary and middle schools in the district.

    [1978 May 12 [1978 April 26], “Peking Teacher Housing”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 93, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page K 6

    With the start of the ceremony minutes away Friday night, Zhang’s father had come in from the apartment across the hallway on the second floor of the austere building in the Shijingshan District on Beijing’s West Side.

    2008 August 8, Harvey Araton, “In Living Room, a Window Into the Games”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2018, Olympics

Origin

  1. Mandarin石景山
  2. EnglishShijingshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石景山 (Shíjǐngshān).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 石景山
  • 石景山 (sek⁶ ging² saan¹)district
Chinese Mandarin 石景山
  • 石景山 (Shíjǐngshān)district
Japanese 石景山
  • 石景山 (Sekikeizan)district
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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