Bishan

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːʃɑːn/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 碧山.

Bishan

1. A planning area and residential town in Singapore.

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 璧山 (Bìshān).

Bishan

1. A district of Chongqing, China.
   • [1979, Lynn T. White III, “Local Newspapers and Community Change, 1949-1969”, in Godwin C. Chu, Francis L. K. Hsu, editors, Moving a Mountain: Cultural Change in China‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 102:

     When by 1958 it was announced that Pishan County in Szechwan had 113 local mimeographed papers, this trend was praised in Peking: "If the articles are about local persons and local happenings, the masses like to read them."]

   • 2018 December 18, Tom Daly, “China agriculture ministry confirms new African swine fever outbreak in Chongqing”, in David Evans, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 20 June 2022, Non-cyclical Consumer Goods:

     The virus was detected on a farm with 23 pigs in Chongqing’s Bishan district, infecting eight animals and killing three, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement.

   • 2020, Namrata Goswami, Peter A. Garretson, Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space‎, Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 202:

     In continuation of such statements, China became the first country in the world to establish a state-funded SBSP base plant in Chongqing's Bishan district in 2019.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Bishan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 437, column 1

• Bhasin, ash-bin, ashbin, banish, bash in, bashin', nisbah