Bishan

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 璧山 (Bìshān).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɪʃɑn/, /bi-/; (place in Singapore): /bɪʃʌn/

Proper noun

Bishan

  1. A district of Chongqing, China.
    • 2018 December 18, Daly, Tom, “China agriculture ministry confirms new African swine fever outbreak in Chongqing”, in David Evans, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 20 June 2022, Non-cyclical Consumer Goods:
      The virus was detected on a farm with 23 pigs in Chongqing’s Bishan district, infecting eight animals and killing three, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement.
    • 2020, Goswami, Namrata; Peter A. Garretson, Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space, Lexington Books, →ISBN, LCCN 2020943851, OCLC 1190786306, page 202:
      In continuation of such statements, China became the first country in the world to establish a state-funded SBSP base plant in Chongqing's Bishan district in 2019.
  2. A planning area and residential town in Singapore.

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