# Baisha
## English
### Alternative forms

* Pai-sha, Paisha (Wade–Giles)

### Etymology

From the Mandarin 白沙 (Báishā, literally “white sand”).

### Proper noun

Baisha
* A Li autonomous county in Hainan, China
* A town in Minhou, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
* A town in Hanjiang district, Putian, Fujian, China
* A town in Xinluo district, Longyan, Fujian, China
* A town in Jishui, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
* A town in Zhongmu, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
* A town in Yichuan, Luoyang, Henan, China
* A town in Yangxin, Huangshi, Hubei, China
* A town in Xiaochang, Xiaogan, Hubei, China
* A town in Changning, Hengyang, Hunan, China
* A town in Xinning, Shaoyang, Hunan, China
* A town in Luxi, Xiangxi prefecture, Hunan, China
* A town in Taishan, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
* A town in Leizhou, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China
* A town in Yingde, Qingyuan, Guangdong, China
* A town in Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi, China
* A town in Hepu, Beihai, Guangxi, China
* A town in Guiping, Guigang, Guangxi, China
* A town in Fuchuan, Hezhou, Guangxi, China
* A town in Liujiang district, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China
* A town in Jiangjin district, Chongqing, China
* A town in Nanchuan district, Chongqing, China
* A town in Shuangliu district, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
* A town in Hejiang, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
* A town in Wanyuan, Dazhou, Sichuan, China
* A town in Shiqian, Tongren, Guizhou, China
* A town in Qingshui, Tianshui, Gansu, China
* A town in Yulong, Lijiang, Yunnan, China
* An island in Penghu County, Taiwan
* A rural township in Penghu County, Taiwan
** 1979 July, Cornelius C. Kubler, “Life in the Pescadores”, in The Asia Mail‎, page 12, column 3:Until a few years ago, it was necessary to take a ferry to travel from one of the three to another, but the three big islands plus several smaller ones in between are today all interconnected by a vast network of bridges. The longest of these, connecting Baisha with Yuweng, is almost two miles in length and is the longest ocean bridge in the Far East.
** 2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 195:The magnificent Tongliang Banyan, thought to be more than 200 years old, forms a huge and glorious canopy over the courtyard of Baoan Temple in the village of Tongliang, on Baisha's western tip.
** 2019 September 12, Yu-ching Liu, William Hetherington, “Penghu students create musical art from ocean trash”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 September 2019, Taiwan News, page 4‎:While recycling plastic and other debris that washes up on beaches and turning them into art has become a trend in the county, the students at Niaoyu Elementary School in Baisha Township’s (白沙) Niaoyu Islet (鳥嶼) are the first to create a musical instrument out of trash.
* A township in Pu'an, Qianxinan prefecture, Guizhou, China
* A subdistrict of Jiangbei district, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
* A subdistrict of Sanyuan district, Sanming, Fujian, China
* A subdistrict of Pengjiang district, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
* A subdistrict of Jiangcheng district, Yangjiang, Guangdong, China
* A subdistrict of Meilan district, Haikou, Hainan, China

#### Translations
### Further reading

* Baisha, Paisha, Pai-sha at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

### Anagrams

* Baha'is, Bahá'ís, Sahabi, sahabi