Shizuishan

Shi·zui·shan
S1H4I1Z10U1I1S1H4A1N1

proper noun

A prefecture-level city of the Ningxia autonomous region, China.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Shihtsuishan

  1. A prefecture-level city of the Ningxia autonomous region, China.

    In Shizuishan, Ningxia's northernmost city, there was only one mainly Yihewani mosque before 1949, later destroyed in 1966.

    1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162
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    I again entered civilization at Shih-tsui-tzu (officially called Shih-tsui-shan), a wretched town of 700 or 800 houses in a barren sandy plain. Three or four miles further south, however, I entered a very fertile region, between the Yellow river and the rugged A-la-shan, watered by five canals, which are supplied with water from the Yellow river, and which distribute it through countless irrigation channels over the surrounding fields.

    [1911 March, George Pereira, “A Journey Across the Ordos”, in The Geographical Journal, volume XXXVII, number 3, London: Royal Geographical Society, page 264

    Tuesday morning’s explosion occurred at a small coal mine when 20 miners were working underground in the city of Shizuishan in the northwestern region of Ningxia, the official Xinhua News Agency said. State broadcaster CCTV had said in the morning that the blast had killed 19 people, but later reported 18 deaths.[…] Calls to the Shizuishan city government Wednesday rang unanswered.

    2016 September 28, “Explosion kills 18 in ‘illegal’ coal mine in northern China”, in AP News, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2022

Origin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 石嘴山 (Shízuǐshān).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 石嘴山
  • 石嘴山 (sek⁶ zeoi² saan¹)prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 石嘴山
  • 石嘴山 (Shízuǐshān)prefecture-level city
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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