Shimen

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 石門／石门 (Shímén).

Proper noun

Shimen

  1. A district of New Taipei, Taiwan.
    • [2021 September 6, “Annual nuclear safety drill to be held in New Taipei Sept. 9-10”, in Focus Taiwan‎, archived from the original on 06 September 2021:
      Taiwan's annual nuclear emergency exercise will take place on Thursday and Friday at the First Nuclear Power Plant in Shihmen District, New Taipei, and its surrounding areas, the Atomic Energy Council (AEC) said Monday.]
    • [2022 August 3, “Study finds more than 30 rip current hot spots in Taiwan”, in Taipei Times‎, archived from the original on 02 August 2022‎:
      More than 30 popular coastal areas in Taiwan are potential rip current hot spots, National Cheng Kung University’s Coastal Ocean Monitoring Center said on Monday.
      The findings are the result of a study the center conducted with backing from the Central Weather Bureau that utilized satellite images and coastal photographs.
      The hot spots include Baishawan (白沙灣) beach in New Taipei City’s Shihmen District (石門), Yuguang Island (魚光島) in Tainan, Sizihwan Bay (西子灣) in Kaohsiung and Pingtung County’s Kenting (墾丁), all of which should consider installing alarm systems, center director Doong Dong-jiing (董東璟) said.      ]
  2. An urban village in Shimen district, New Taipei, Taiwan.

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References
  1. Wan-yao Chou (周婉窈) (2015), “Transliteration Tables”, in , Carole Plackitt, Tim Casey, transl., A New Illustrated History of Taiwan‎, Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, page 434: “Transliterations used in the text / Hanyu pinyin / Chinese characters or Japanese kanji […] Shihmen / Shimen / 石門”

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