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shantung¹

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From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 山東／山东 (Shāndōng), Shantung.

noun shantungs

  1. countable, uncountable A type of Chinese silk, originally undyed. As she walked, the soft silk of her dress – she wore a blue shantung, full-skirted – blew away from the sea and flapped and clung to her legs.
  2. countable, uncountable A fabric of some other material having the same characteristics.

Shantung²

Where it comes from

From Mandarin 山東／山东 (Shāndōng) cf. Wade-Giles romanization: Shan¹-tung¹.

proper noun

  1. alternative Alternative form of Shandong The rest of the coast of China northward, as far as this chart is continued, is copied from the Missionary provincial charts, except in the direction of the coast, which is made more westerly, to accord with the situation of the Chantong or Shantung Promontory, at the entrance of the Yellow Sea, as

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@misc{shantung_2026,
  title = {shantung},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shantung},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}