Shadang

English

Alternative forms

• Shatang
• Sha-tang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 沙蕩／沙荡 (Shādàng).

Proper noun

Shadang

1. A residential community of Chenjiagang, Xiangshui, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China, formerly a village.
   • 2019 March 23, Sidney Leng, Zhuang Pinghui, “Chinese chemical plant survivors relive horror of ‘earth-shattering’ blast”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], archived from the original on March 22, 2019:

     Gao Congbiao, from Shadang village 6km away from the plant, had been working on his land when he saw a “big fireball exploding into wild flames” and said the “earth-shattering” blast had left his home and farmland seriously damaged.

   • 2019 March 25, Cang Wei, Hou Liqiang, “Medical treatment top priority after blast in Xiangshui”, in China Daily‎^[2], archived from the original on March 26, 2019:

     People repair a window on Saturday that was shattered last week in the chemical plant blast in Shadang village, Xiangshui county, Jiangsu province.

   • 2019 March 29, “Villagers Reassess Lives After Fatal Explosion”, in China Daily‎^[3], archived from the original on 27 August 2022‎^[4]:

     The explosion shattered all the windows in Ding's house in Shadang, about 2 kilometers from the Xiangshui Ecological Chemical Industrial Park.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Shadang.

Translations

residential community in eastern China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沙蕩／沙荡 (Shādàng)

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