Nanshi

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南市.

Proper noun

Nanshi

1. (historical) A district of Shanghai, China.
   • 1996 February 1, Elaine Chan, “Nanshi plans cable car project”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 February 2024‎^[2]:

     SHANGHAI'S Nanshi district, which includes the southern Bund area, plans to build a cable car system to Pudong across the Huangpu River to boost retail activities on both banks.

   • 2000 April 16, Craig S. Smith, “WHAT'S DOING IN Shanghai”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, WHAT'S DOING IN‎^[4]:

     Farther east is Nanshi, the original walled city of Shanghai. The circular wall is long gone; a road has replaced it. Visitors usually go to the maze of mostly rebuilt Qing dynasty buildings around the Temple of the City God and Yu Yuan Garden.

Synonyms

• Nantao

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南市

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can