Shanzhou

See also: Shǎnzhōu

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陝州／陕州 (Shǎnzhōu).

Proper noun

Shanzhou

1. A district of Sanmenxia, Henan, China.
   • 2018 January 23, “Bird's-eye view of underground dwellings in Central China”, in China Daily‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 January 2018‎^[2]:

     Originating from the cave culture, the underground quadrangle dwellings, totaling more than 10,000, in the southern part of Shanzhou district, Sanmenxia city in Henan province, are recognized as a live fossil in the history of dwellings.

   • 2022, Fang Wang, Shunyi Wang, Beijia Cheng, Wanjing Wang, “To inhabit, retain or abandon? Adaptive utilization of energy-efficient sunken buildings by rural households in Shanzhou, China”, in Energy and Buildings‎^[3], volume 255, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-21‎^[4]:

     This paper focuses on the sunken courtyard, a typical vernacular architecture that utilizes underground space, carries out field investigation and questionnaire survey in villages of Shanzhou District, China.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陝州／陕州 (Shǎnzhōu)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Zhoushan