Baisha

See also: báishā

English

Alternative forms

• Pai-sha, Paisha (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Mandarin 白沙 (Báishā, literally “white sand”).

Proper noun

Baisha

1. A Li autonomous county in Hainan, China
2. A town in Minhou, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
3. A town in Hanjiang district, Putian, Fujian, China
4. A town in Xinluo district, Longyan, Fujian, China
5. A town in Jishui, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
6. A town in Zhongmu, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
7. A town in Yichuan, Luoyang, Henan, China
8. A town in Yangxin, Huangshi, Hubei, China
9. A town in Xiaochang, Xiaogan, Hubei, China
10. A town in Changning, Hengyang, Hunan, China
11. A town in Xinning, Shaoyang, Hunan, China
12. A town in Luxi, Xiangxi prefecture, Hunan, China
13. A town in Taishan, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
14. A town in Leizhou, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China
15. A town in Yingde, Qingyuan, Guangdong, China
16. A town in Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi, China
17. A town in Hepu, Beihai, Guangxi, China
18. A town in Guiping, Guigang, Guangxi, China
19. A town in Fuchuan, Hezhou, Guangxi, China
20. A town in Liujiang district, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China
21. A town in Jiangjin district, Chongqing, China
22. A town in Nanchuan district, Chongqing, China
23. A town in Shuangliu district, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
24. A town in Hejiang, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
25. A town in Wanyuan, Dazhou, Sichuan, China
26. A town in Shiqian, Tongren, Guizhou, China
27. A town in Qingshui, Tianshui, Gansu, China
28. A town in Yulong, Lijiang, Yunnan, China
29. An island in Penghu County, Taiwan
30. A rural township in Penghu County, Taiwan
    • 1979 July, Cornelius C. Kubler, “Life in the Pescadores”, in The Asia Mail‎^[1], page 12, column 3:

      Until a few years ago, it was necessary to take a ferry to travel from one of the three to another, but the three big islands plus several smaller ones in between are today all interconnected by a vast network of bridges. The longest of these, connecting Baisha with Yuweng, is almost two miles in length and is the longest ocean bridge in the Far East.

    • 2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 195:

      The magnificent Tongliang Banyan, thought to be more than 200 years old, forms a huge and glorious canopy over the courtyard of Baoan Temple in the village of Tongliang, on Baisha's western tip.

    • 2019 September 12, Yu-ching Liu, William Hetherington, “Penghu students create musical art from ocean trash”, in Taipei Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 September 2019, Taiwan News, page 4‎^[3]:

      While recycling plastic and other debris that washes up on beaches and turning them into art has become a trend in the county, the students at Niaoyu Elementary School in Baisha Township’s (白沙) Niaoyu Islet (鳥嶼) are the first to create a musical instrument out of trash.

31. A township in Pu'an, Qianxinan prefecture, Guizhou, China
32. A subdistrict of Jiangbei district, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
33. A subdistrict of Sanyuan district, Sanming, Fujian, China
34. A subdistrict of Pengjiang district, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
35. A subdistrict of Jiangcheng district, Yangjiang, Guangdong, China
36. A subdistrict of Meilan district, Haikou, Hainan, China

Translations

rural township in northern Penghu (the Pescadores)

• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 白沙 (Pe̍h-soa)

  Mandarin: 白沙 (zh) (Báishā)

Further reading

• Baisha, Paisha, Pai-sha at Google Ngram Viewer

Anagrams

• Baha'is, Bahá'ís, Sahabi, sahabi