Lianhe Zaobao
A nickname for the city is "Shīchéng" (Mandarin)/"Sai-siâⁿ" (Hokkien) (獅城), literally "Lion City." Modern historical names are retained as poetic or shorthand names for the island or country and include "Xīngzhōu"/"Seng-chiu" (星洲) and "Xīngguó"/"Seng-kok" (星國). "Xīng", literally "star," is used as a transcription for the first syllable of "Singapore." "Zhōu" is a term for "island" in this case while "guó" means "country" or "state." "Xīngzhōu" is used in names such as the "Sin Chew Jit Poh" (星洲日報), a newspaper that was published in Singapore until the 1980s, and "Nanyang Sin-Chew Lianhe Zaobao" (南洋·星洲联合早报, "Lianhe Zaobao" for short), Singapore's largest Chinese-language newspaper.