Etymograph

English

Shaoshan

Shaoshan comes from Mandarin 韶山.

  1. Mandarinmodern韶山Sháoshān
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1954Shaoshan

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Mandarinmodern韶山Sháoshān
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1954Shaoshan

Earliest quotation: 1954, Carolyn Wells, Internationally Speaking...: “Mao Tse-tung, for example, leader of Communist China, was…”

Today it means

name A county-level city of Xiangtan, Hunan, China.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Mandarin 韶山 / Shaoshan