Xiushan

See also: xiūshàn and Xiùshān

English

Alternative forms

• Hsiushan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秀山 (Xiùshān).

Proper noun

Xiushan

1. A Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
   • 1986, Mu En-zhi, A. J. Boucot, Chen Xu, Rong Jia-yu, Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China‎^[1], Geological Society of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

     Ge and others (1979, p. 169) named the Rongxi Formation for red beds lying above the Majiaochong Formation and below the Xiushan Formation. The type locality is about 6 km south of Rongxi, Xiushan County, SE Sichuan.

   • 2007 October 23, “Blast at fireworks workshops kills 18 in China”, in Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 2023-06-07, Latest Crisis‎^[3]:

     An explosion hit an unlicensed fireworks factory early on Sunday morning in remote Xiushan county, in southwestern Chongqing, destroyed three nearby houses and left one person missing, the Beijing News said.

Translations

Tujia and Miao autonomous county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 秀山 (zh) (Xiùshān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiushan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3505, column 1