"Nan-sha" meaning in All languages combined

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        "3": "南沙"
      },
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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 南沙 (Nánshā) Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-sha¹.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Nansha"
        }
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1974 January 23, “Chinese Defend Hsi-sha Islands”, in East/West [東西報], volume 8, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 4",
          "text": "The Hsi-sha and Nan-sha Islands have been fishing areas for Chinese fishermen for a long time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975 April 7, “Sino-Malaysian Territorial Disagreement”, in Staff Notes: East Asia, CIA, published 2001, page 5",
          "text": "Tseng-mu Reef is described in Peking publications as \"the southernmost part of China\" and within the Nan-sha (Spratly) group of islands.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, “Problems with Socialist Countries”, in King C. Chen, editor, China and the Three Worlds: A Foreign Policy Reader, M.E. Sharpe, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 273",
          "text": "Since then, there have been disputes over the question of ownership of the Hsi-sha and Nan-sha islands. The navy of the Nguyen Van Thieu Regime even fought with us at Hsi-sha, ending in a disastrous defeat for them. The Chiang Kai-shek clique now occupies some of the Nan-sha islands.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[1982, Agatha S.Y. Wong-Fraser, “People's Republic of China”, in James Everett Katz, Onkar S Marwah, editors, Nuclear Power in Developing Countries, Lexington Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 119–120",
          "text": "Since 1966, extensive offshore reserves in the continental shelf—stretching from the Yellow Sea as far as Hsi-Sha (Paracel) and Nan-Sha (Spratley) Islands in the South China Sea—have been reported in official Chinese statements,³ reinforcing the long-maintained claim that the PRC holds the third-largest oil and gas reserves in the world.⁴]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Nansha"
      ],
      "id": "en-Nan-sha-en-name-QdWb3oE8",
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        [
          "Nansha",
          "Nansha#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Nan-sha"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 南沙 (Nánshā) Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-sha¹.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
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          "word": "Nansha"
        }
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Mandarin",
        "English terms borrowed from Wade–Giles",
        "English terms derived from Mandarin",
        "English terms derived from Wade–Giles",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1974 January 23, “Chinese Defend Hsi-sha Islands”, in East/West [東西報], volume 8, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 4",
          "text": "The Hsi-sha and Nan-sha Islands have been fishing areas for Chinese fishermen for a long time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975 April 7, “Sino-Malaysian Territorial Disagreement”, in Staff Notes: East Asia, CIA, published 2001, page 5",
          "text": "Tseng-mu Reef is described in Peking publications as \"the southernmost part of China\" and within the Nan-sha (Spratly) group of islands.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, “Problems with Socialist Countries”, in King C. Chen, editor, China and the Three Worlds: A Foreign Policy Reader, M.E. Sharpe, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 273",
          "text": "Since then, there have been disputes over the question of ownership of the Hsi-sha and Nan-sha islands. The navy of the Nguyen Van Thieu Regime even fought with us at Hsi-sha, ending in a disastrous defeat for them. The Chiang Kai-shek clique now occupies some of the Nan-sha islands.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[1982, Agatha S.Y. Wong-Fraser, “People's Republic of China”, in James Everett Katz, Onkar S Marwah, editors, Nuclear Power in Developing Countries, Lexington Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 119–120",
          "text": "Since 1966, extensive offshore reserves in the continental shelf—stretching from the Yellow Sea as far as Hsi-Sha (Paracel) and Nan-Sha (Spratley) Islands in the South China Sea—have been reported in official Chinese statements,³ reinforcing the long-maintained claim that the PRC holds the third-largest oil and gas reserves in the world.⁴]",
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        }
      ],
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  ],
  "word": "Nan-sha"
}