Beishan

English

Alternative forms

• Peishan, Pei-shan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北山 (Běishān).

Proper noun

Beishan

1. A mountain range in western China.
   • [1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China]‎^[1], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 195:

     The Hohsi Corridor is long, narrow and easily passable. Over 1,000 kilometres in length, it is bordered on the south by the Chilien Mountains and on the north by the broken, slightly lower Peishan Mountains. It is penetrated by the rolling sand from Inner Mongolia. The corridor, though an arid area, is constantly watered by the melting snow and ice from the Chiliens. The irrigation system here goes back 2,000 years, when agriculture was originally developed on the oases on which most of the towns and villages have since arisen.]

   • 1986, Zhao Songqiao (Chao Sung-chiao), Physical Geography of China‎^[2], Science Press, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 170:

     The desert division of China is essentially composed of the Alashan Plateau (including the Beishan Mountains and the Hexi Corridor), two great inland basins (the Junggar and the Tarim) and their surrounding high mountains (mainly the Tianshan and the Altay).

   • 1987, Geotectonic Evolution of China‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 36:

     In the Beishan Mts., the Jinta Formation is unconformably overlain by the Fangshankou Group.

   • 1993, China (Insight Guides)‎^[4], 2nd edition, Singapore: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 231:

     The wall, from the Ming period, which is still intact, stretches south-westwards to the foothills of the Qilianshan and approximately northwards to the Beishan.

   • 2008 August 25, “CHINA: Nuclear expansion faces obstacles”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 April 2023, World:

     China now has a centralized spent fuel facility in Lanzhou (Gansu). The current storage capacity of 550 tonnes could be doubled, but still will not be sufficient to cope with the greater volume in future. China has been considering another repository, in Beishan Mountain in Inner Mongolia.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Beishan.
2. A subdistrict of Chuanying district, Jilin, Jilin, China.
3. A subdistrict of Yanji, Yanbian, Jilin, China.
4. A subdistrict of Xiangyang district, Hegang, Heilongjiang, China.
5. A subdistrict of Lingdong district, Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang, China.
6. A subdistrict of Xinxing district, Qitaihe, Heilongjiang, China.
7. A subdistrict of Aimin district, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China.
8. A subdistrict of Xihu district, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
9. A subdistrict of Macun district, Jiaozuo, Henan, China.
10. A town in Qingtian, Lishui, Zhejiang, China.
11. A town in Changsha, Changsha, Hunan, China.
12. A town in Longhui, Shaoyang, Hunan, China.
13. A town in Yizhou district, Hechi, Guizhou, China.
14. A township in Suibin, Hegang, Heilongjiang, China.
15. A township in Duchang, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China.
16. A township in Dazhou district, Dazhou, Sichuan, China.
17. A township in Xide, Liangshan, Sichuan, China.
18. A township in Minhe, Haidong, Qinghai, China.
19. A township in Menyuan, Haibei, Qinghai, China.
20. A village in Bo'ao, Qionghai, Hainan, China.
21. (historical) A village in Lingshanwei, Huangdao district, Qingdao, Shandong, China.
22. A village in Guoxing, Nantou County, Taiwan.

Descendants

• Translingual: beishanensis, Beishanlong

Translations

locations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 北山 (zh) (Běishān)

Anagrams

• banshie