Baisha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: bīʹshäʹ
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: Pai-sha
form: Paisha
Etymology: From the Mandarin 白沙 (Báishā, literally “white sand”).
Senses: glosses: A Li autonomous county in Hainan, China.
glosses: A town in Minhou, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
glosses: A town in Hanjiang district, Putian, Fujian, China.
glosses: A town in Xinluo district, Longyan, Fujian, China.
glosses: A town in Jishui, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China.
glosses: A town in Zhongmu, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
glosses: A town in Yichuan, Luoyang, Henan, China.
glosses: A town in Yangxin, Huangshi, Hubei, China.
glosses: A town in Xiaochang, Xiaogan, Hubei, China.
glosses: A town in Changning, Hengyang, Hunan, China.
glosses: A town in Xinning, Shaoyang, Hunan, China.
glosses: A town in Luxi, Xiangxi prefecture, Hunan, China.
glosses: A town in Taishan, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
glosses: A town in Leizhou, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
glosses: A town in Yingde, Qingyuan, Guangdong, China.
glosses: A town in Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
glosses: A town in Hepu, Beihai, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
glosses: A town in Guiping, Guigang, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
glosses: A town in Fuchuan, Hezhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
glosses: A town in Liujiang district, Liuzhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
glosses: A town in Jiangjin district, Chongqing, China.
glosses: A town in Nanchuan district, Chongqing, China.
glosses: A town in Shuangliu district, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
glosses: A town in Hejiang, Luzhou, Sichuan, China.
glosses: A town in Wanyuan, Dazhou, Sichuan, China.
glosses: A town in Shiqian, Tongren, Guizhou, China.
glosses: A town in Qingshui, Tianshui, Gansu, China.
glosses: A town in Yulong, Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
glosses: An island of Penghu County, Taiwan.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1979 July, Cornelius C. Kubler, “Life in the Pescadores”, in The Asia Mail, page 12, column 3:
text: 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.
ref: 2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 195:
text: 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.
ref: 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 Sep 2019, Taiwan News, page 4:
glosses: A rural township in Penghu County, Taiwan.
glosses: A township in Pu'an, Qianxinan prefecture, Guizhou, China.
glosses: A subdistrict of Jiangbei district, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China.
glosses: A subdistrict of Sanyuan district, Sanming, Fujian, China.
glosses: A subdistrict of Pengjiang district, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
glosses: A subdistrict of Jiangcheng district, Yangjiang, Guangdong, China.
glosses: A subdistrict of Meilan district, Haikou, Hainan, China.