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单词 Shao-hsing
释义

Shao-hsing

See also: Shaohsing

English

Map including SHAO-HSING (SHAOHING) 紹興 (AMS, 1954)

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 紹興 (Shao⁴-hsing¹).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • enPR: shouʹshǐngʹ

Proper noun

Shao-hsing

  1. Alternative form of Shaoxing
    • 1868, Henry Moule, A Narrative of the Conversion of a Chinese Physician, page 53:
      In the autumn they were reinforced, and moved northward and eastward to the circuit of Ningpo. The great city of Shao-hsing fell in October, and out missionaries there, Mr. B. and Mr. F., were compelled to retire upon Ningpo.
    • 1962, Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, page 253:
      Over-congestion and limited resources had forced many Shao-hsing and Ning-po people to earn their livings elsewhere, a phenomenon which deeply struck a scholar-official of Shanghai in the sixteenth century.
    • 1989, Chan, Wing-tsit, Chu Hsi New Studies, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, LCCN 89-4799, OCLC 246807084, OL 2186720M, page 21:
      When I was commissioner in Chekiang East, there was a woman in Shao-hsing County who had an affair with the son of her late husband's sister.
    • 2002, David Hinton, transl., Mountain Home, →ISBN, OCLC 51639996, OL 8000039M, page 241:
      After a tempestuous and undistinguished government career, a time during which close bonds of friendship formed between Lu Yu and the other two major poets of the late Sung, Fan Ch'eng-ta and Yang Wan-li, Lu Yu retired to spend his last two decades as an increasingly impoverished recluse on a farm at his ancestral village in Shao-hsing.
    • 2002, Annping Chin, Four Sisters of Hofei, Scribner, →ISBN, LCCN 2002073343, OCLC 248866825, page 7:
      When Hsü shot and killed the governor, Chʻiu Chin was implicated. Authorities claimed that she was simultaneously planning an uprising in Shao-hsing.
    • 2010, Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel, Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, page 105:
      So that's when we start to make menus. I say, "At night, I'm dreaming menus. Like summer. First course: lime ceviche, try albacore."
      He says, "Second course: drunken chicken in Shao-hsing wine."
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Shao-hsing.

Translations

References

  1. Shaoxing, Wade-Giles romanization Shao-hsing, in Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, LCCN 79-42627, OCLC 781411242, pages 476, 484: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, [] Shao-hsing (Shaoxing) 紹興

Further reading

  • Shao-hsing at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • Shao-hsing”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
  • Shao-hsing” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
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