Kunshan

English

Alternative forms

• K'un-shan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 崑山／昆山 (Kūnshān).

Proper noun

Kunshan

1. A county-level city in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
   • 1976 December 19, “Armed conflict incidents rise”, in Free China Weekly‎^[1], volume XVII, number 50, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     An armed conflict between Hua Kuo-feng’s supporters and elements of the “gang of four” in Kunshan County, Kiangsu Province, ended with about 200 killed in mid-November, according to an intelligence report reaching Taipei Dec. 14.

   • 2019 March 31, Yawen Chen, Tom Daly, “RPT-China plant explosion kills 7; second blast in Jiangsu province this month”, in Darren Schuettler, editor, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 31 March 2019, Asia:

     Sunday’s blast involved a container of scrap metal that caught fire in a metal-molding plant in a bonded area in the city of Kunshan, state news agency Xinhua said.
     The cause of the blast which killed seven people and injured five others was under investigation, Xinhua said.
     The plant is owned by Kunshan Waffer Technology Corp Ltd. , a Taiwan-based manufacturer of magnesium alloy injection molding products and aluminium alloy die castings.
     Kunshan, about 70 km (43 miles) west of Shanghai, is home to more than 1,000 technology companies and manufacturers, including many Taiwanese firms.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kunshan.

Translations

county-level city in Jiangsu

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 崑山／昆山 (kwan¹ saan¹)

  Mandarin: 崑山／昆山 (zh) (Kūnshān)

Further reading

• Kunshan, K'un-shan, Kun-shan at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Kunshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1631, column 2