bishan
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
/ˈbiːʃɑːn/
Definition of bishan
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
name
- A planning area and residential town in Singapore.
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name
- A planning area and residential town in Singapore.
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A district of Chongqing, China.
“These considerations led recently to a decision to remove the Institute to Pishan county in Szechwan, where, as the Institute of Rural Research and Training, it plans to collaborate closely with the Mass Education Movement, and resume cooperation on a university basis with its member institutions.”
“When by 1958 it was announced that Pishan County in Szechwan had 113 local mimeographed papers, this trend was praised in Peking: "If the articles are about local persons and local happenings, the masses like to read them."”
“The virus was detected on a farm with 23 pigs in Chongqing’s Bishan district, infecting eight animals and killing three, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement.”
“In continuation of such statements, China became the first country in the world to establish a state-funded SBSP base plant in Chongqing's Bishan district in 2019.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 碧山 (Bìshān).
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