Xiangshan County, Guangdong

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Xiangshan County, Guangdong
Heungshan
County
Xiangshan County, Guangdong
Guangdong subdivisions - Zhongshan.svg
Location of Zhongshan in Guangdong
Country Great Qing Empire Republic of China
Province Guangdong
County-level divisionsNone
  1. Matteo Ricci and Nicolas Trigault, De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas . Page 140 in the English translation: Gallagher (1953). "China in the Sixteenth Century: The Journals of Matteo Ricci", Random House, New York, 1953. English translation of Trigault's Latin by Louis J. Gallagher. Ricci's transcription for "Xiangshan" is Hiam-Xan.

Xiangshan County
Traditional Chinese 香山
Simplified Chinese 香山
Literal meaningFragrant Mountain
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Xiāngshān Xiàn
Wade–Giles Hsiang-shan Hsien
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization Hēung-sāan Yuhn
Jyutping Hoeng¹-saan¹ Jyun²