Shenzhen

See also: Shénzhen and Shēnzhèn

English

Alternative forms

• Shen-chen (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 深圳 (Shēnzhèn), from 深 (shēn, “deep”) + 圳 (zhèn, “irrigation ditch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʃɛnˈd͡ʒɛn/, /ˌʃɛnˈʒɛn/

Proper noun

Shenzhen

1. A major subprovincial city in Guangdong, in southeastern China.
   • Encyclopædia Britannica

     In 1979 Shenzhen was a small border city of some 30,000 inhabitants that served as a customs stop into mainland China from Hong Kong.

   • 2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China‎^[1], New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:

     Over the next two years, China set up four “special economic zones” as testing grounds for free-enterprise practices like foreign investment and tax incentives. The largest zone was Shenzhen, about fifty miles south of Dongguan, which quickly became a symbol of a freewheeling China always open for business. Shenzhen was a planned showcase city, willed into being by leaders in Beijing and supported by government ministries and the companies under them.

   • 2009, Lanqing Li, “The Birth of Special Economic Zones”, in Ling Yuan, Zhang Siying, transl., Breaking Through: The Birth of China's Opening-Up Policy‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 122:

     The tiny 0.8-square-kilometer Luohu District was where the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone really got off to a good start.

   • 2021 June 21, Keith Bradsher, “Chinese port difficulties amid a Covid outbreak further snarl global trade.”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-21, Business‎^[4]:

     The blockage of the Suez Canal in March? No, there is another disruption in global shipping. This time, the problem lies in Shenzhen, a sprawling metropolis adjacent to Hong Kong in southeastern China.

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

Synonyms

• (from Cantonese) Shumchun, Shum-chun, Shamchun, Sham Chun

Translations

a city in China

• Arabic: شِينْتْشِين m (šintšīn), شِينْجِين m (šinjīn)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 深圳 (sam¹ zan³)

  Eastern Min: 深圳 (Chĭng-dáung)

  Hakka: 深圳 (Chhṳ̂m-chun)

  Hokkien: 深圳 (Chhim-chùn)

  Mandarin: 深圳 (zh) (Shēnzhèn)

• Czech: Šen-čen m
• Finnish: Shenzhen
• Hebrew: שנג'ן
• Hindi: शेन्झेन (śenjhen), शेन्झ़ेन (śenźen), शेन्ज़ेन (śenzen)
• Hungarian: Sencsen (hu)
• Japanese: 深圳 (しんせん, Shinsen), 深セン (しんせん, Shinsen), シンセン (Shinsen)
• Korean: 선전 (ko) (Seonjeon), 심천 (深圳) (Simcheon)
• Macedonian: Шенжен m (Šenžen), Шенџен m (Šendžen)
• Marathi: शेन्झेन n (śenjhen)
• Persian: شن‌ژن
• Portuguese: Shenzhen
• Russian: Шэньчжэ́нь (ru) m (Šɛnʹčžɛ́nʹ)
• Spanish: Shénzhen
• Thai: เซินเจิ้น
• Urdu: شینژین (śenžen)
• Uyghur: شېنجېن (shënjën)
• Vietnamese: Thâm Quyến (vi) (深圳 (vi))

Portuguese

Proper noun

Shenzhen

1. Shenzhen (a major subprovincial city in Guangdong, in southeastern China)