Wu-shan

See also: Wushan

English

Map including Wu-shan (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 巫山 (Wūshān) Wade–Giles romanization: Wu¹-shan¹.

Proper noun

Wu-shan

1. Alternative form of Wushan
   • 1899, E. H. Parker, Up the Yang-tse‎^[1], Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, →OCLC, page 43:

     One side of the gully (ch'i) belongs to Pa-tung, the other to Wu-shan.

   • 1907, Research in China‎^[2], volume 1, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13:

     On reaching the Ta-ning-ho, a tributary of the Yang-tzï, we again took boats and ran the swift stream to Wu-shan.

   • 1981, Hualing Nieh Engle, translated by Jane Parish Yang and Linda Lappin, Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China‎^[3], Boston: Beacon Press, published 1988, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:

     There weren't any passenger ships leaving Pa-tung, only a freighter going to Wu-shan, so we took that. When we arrived in Wu-shan, we happened upon an old wooden boat which carried cotton to Feng-chieh, so we took that.

Translations

Wushan — see Wushan