Meanings
- Southern China.
The seasonal change of the winds, in the Asian monsoon system, drove long distance mobility on the south China coast.
2001, Carolyn Cartier, Globalizing South China, Blackwell Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 893 more examples
DAIREN, South Manchuria, Oct. 12. -- South China with its Communists, the Yangtse Valley with rampant anti-foreignism and incessant civil warfare and Peking with Marshal Chang Tso-lin attempting to consolidate his dictatorship and found a stable central Government -- these seem to be the major constituents of the Chinese problem until one visits Manchuria.
1927 November 13, Hallett Abend, “GRIM STRUGGLE ON TO RULE MANCHURIA; China, Russia and Japan Bid for Supremacy of Vast Domain, Realizing It May End in War. DAIREN A SPOTLESS CITY Built by Japan, It Is Clean and Modern In Contrast to Dirty and Inefficient Towns of South. GRIM STRUGGLE ON TO RULE MANCHURIA”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2024, EDITORIALE, page 1Confronted with the challenge of economic restructuring in the context of the noninterventionist policy of the Hong Kong government, local manufacturers had amore limited ability to pursue technological upgrading than their counterparts in Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore had. Their survival strategy was to take advantage of the new availability of the massive supply of cheap labor and cheap industrial land in South China.
1998, Ching Kwan Lee, Gender and the South China Miracle, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 45–46As they spent much time in prayer for the nearly eight million people of Kwangsi, South China, God began calling some of them to that field of service so that within the next five years seventeen from the same class were serving in South China.
2007, Martha L. Charles Pepper, “Missionary Training, 1893-1896”, in All the Way to China: The story of Isaac L. Hess and his Landis cousins who went to South China as pioneer missionaries in the 1890s, Morgantown, PA: Masthof Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33 - A village in the town of China, Kennebec County, Maine, United States.
Helga Cotta, 57, from South China, Maine, said: “Hunting season is like my vacation. It’s so solitary, you can leave all your problems at home and just go out and watch the woods come alive around you in the morning.”
2007 January 20, Sarah Mahoney, “In U.S., women go wild for hunting”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022, U.S. News - hobbiesSouth China Athletic Association (a Hong Kong sports club best known for its football team)
South China is Hong Kong's most successful football club, having won 41 league titles.
Origin
- Chinese南華 /南华
- EnglishSouth China
Calque of Chinese 南華 /南华 (Nánhuá).
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Arabic جَنُوب الصِّين, جَنُوب الصِّين
- جَنُوب الصِّين (janūb aṣ-ṣīn)region in Asia
- جَنُوب الصِّين (janūb aṣ-ṣīn)a Hong Kong sports club best known for its football team
- سَاوْث تَشَايْنَا (sāwṯ tašāynā)a Hong Kong sports club best known for its football team
Chinese Cantonese 華南 /华南, 南華 /南华
- 華南 /华南 (waa⁴ naam⁴)region in Asia
- 南華 /南华 (naam⁴ waa⁴)region in Asia
- 南華 /南华 (naam⁴ waa⁴)a Hong Kong sports club best known for its football team
Chinese Mandarin 華南 /华南, 南華 /南华
- 華南 /华南 (Huánán)region in Asia
- 南華 /南华 (Nánhuá)region in Asia
- 中國南方 /中国南方 (Zhōngguó nánfāng)region in Asia
- 南華 /南华 (Nánhuá)a Hong Kong sports club best known for its football team
Japanese 華南, 南華
- 華南 (Kanan)region in Asia
- 南華 (Nanka)region in Asia
Cite this entry
South China. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/South%20China
“South China.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/South%20China. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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