Sanming

See also: sānmíng

English

Alternative forms

• San-ming (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 三明 (Sānmíng).

Proper noun

Sanming

1. A prefecture-level city in Fujian, China.
   • 1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map‎^[1], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170:

     The Southeast uplands are generally poor in mineral resources, but coal and iron were evidently abundant enough to justify the construction of a medium-size integrated iron and steel plant in Fukien at Sanming during the Great Leap. Coal for the Sanming operation is mined in the Changping-Lungyen district and iron ore at nearby Hwaan.

   • 1976, Hung-ying Liao, “My Old Home Revisited”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[2], volume XV, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:

     In 1959, on my way to Changting from Sanming in north Fukien, the bus stopped at an eating place and I got into conversation with a young woman at the same table.

   • 1988, Paul Theroux, “The Night Train to Xiamen: Number 375”, in Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China‎^[3], G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 410–411:

     A young woman had just finished her dancing class and was on her way home when I accosted her. She was Wan Li, a cadre at the economics ministry. She had gone to the Dalian Foreign Language Institute (she hadn't met Cherry Blossom there, unfortunately) but she had been raised in the central Fujian town of Sanming. That town had the reputation in China of being somewhat utopian. It had been developed by people from all over China, before the Cultural Revolution. Miss Wan claimed that everything that had been said about Sanming was true—no problems, no pollution, perfect integration, a model city.
     "Any Tibetans in Sanming?"
     "No," Miss Wan said. "They have to stay in Tibet and solve their own problems. But people in Sanming are very civilized. They are from all places. Like the United States!"

   • 2018 December 20, Hallie Gu, Tom Daly, “China confirms new African swine fever outbreak in Fujian province”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 20 December 2018, Health News‎^[5]:

     The outbreak in Sanming city in Fujian killed 27 animals on a farm of 11,950 pigs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement on its website.

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

Translations

city in Fujian, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 三明 (saam¹ ming⁴)

  Mandarin: 三明 (zh) (Sānmíng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Sanming, San-ming at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Sanming”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2785, column 3

Anagrams

• Mangins, Minangs, mansing, namings