Shenmu

See also: shěnmǔ

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 神木 (Shénmù).

Proper noun

Shenmu

1. A county-level city in Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1972, Paul G. Pickowicz, “Barefoot Doctors in China: People, Politics, and Paramedicine”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[1], volume XI, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34, column 1:

     In Shenmu County, Shensi Province in the north-western part of China, a medical school for barefoot doctors offers a two year programme.

   • [1986, Hsia Nai, “The Classification, Nomenclature, and Usage of Shang Dynasty Jades”, in K. C. Chang, editor, Studies of Shang Archaeology: Selected Papers from the International Conference on Shang Civilization‎^[2], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 228:

     Two tao with three and five perforations, respectively, made of black jade, were found at the site of Shih-mao in Shensi, Yü-lin District, Shen-mu County. Their total lengths are 49 and 55 centimeters.⁴⁷]

   • 2006 May, Thammy (谭美) Evans, Great Wall of China: Beijing & Northern China (Bradt Travel Guides)‎^[3], 1st edition (Travel), Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 10:

     By the 20th century, the Ming wall was simply known as the ‘old frontier’ (lǎobiān). For instance, when Frederick Clapp of the Geographical Review reached the Ming wall at Shenmu, Shaanxi, in 1920, he wrote in his article of the trip that 'the natives said: “This is not the ‘Great Wall’; this is the ‘First Frontier Wall’, built only 400 years ago; the ‘Great Wall’ is further north.”'

   • 2013 August 15, Keith Bradsher, “Easy Credit Dries Up, Choking Growth in China”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-08-16, Global Business‎^[5]:

     Shenmu, and nearby cities like Ordos and Fugu, are at the leading edge of broader troubles that are beginning to afflict the entire Chinese economy. Across China, growth has slowed. With the slowdown have come rising defaults on loans made outside the conventional banking system, chronic overcapacity in many industries like coal mining and steel production and, in particularly troubled cities like Shenmu, a sharp decline in previously debt-fueled prices for real estate and other assets.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神木 (zh) (Shénmù)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Shumen, Shunem, unhems, unmesh