Fat Shan

See also: Fatshan

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 佛山 (fat6 saan1), when the initial of the second syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Proper noun

Fat Shan

  1. Synonym of Foshan.
    • 1975, Ruth Hitchcock, The Good Hand of Our God‎[1], Elgin, IL: David C. Cook Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 146:
      It was getting dark when we arrived in Fat Shan, and coolies swarmed onto the boat to carry baggage up to the street level.[...]We would have to spend the night in Fat Shan and wanted a place to put all the baskets of supplies until morning when we would continue our journey.
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