shanwei

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Definition of shanwei

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

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  1. A prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong, China.
    “He left the junk at Shan-wei in the province of Canton, and from there took a boat which conveyed him to Macao.”
    “He had reached the retirement age of fifty-five in 1957, after being first employed by the Government as a young man. Born in Kowloon about 1903, he was taken back to Shan Wei in eastern Kwangtung (Fig. 3.1) at age eight for his primary education comprising four or five years in a private school with over a hundred students.”
    “Residents reached by telephone said Dongzhou, a farming and fishing village 14 miles southeast of Shanwei city, in Guangdong province near Hong Kong, was quiet Friday for the second night in a row. But checkpoints were reinforced on roads leading in and out of the village, leaving its 10,000 residents blocked in unless they traveled by sea or walked circuitous routes.”
    “The government of Shanwei, the prefecture-level city that includes Wukan, later blamed news media outlets from outside the Chinese mainland, including Apple Daily and Initium Media from Hong Kong, of “instigation, planning and direction” in Wukan.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 汕尾 (Shànwěi).

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