Talk:Place names in China

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Bayan Har Mountains starts "The Bayan Har mountains (Mongolian: Bayan Har Uul, simplified Chinese: 巴颜喀拉山脉; pinyin: Bāyánkālā shānmài).... What is Shanmai?

• Shan = Mountain, Hill, sometimes Mountains as in Tian Shan, Kunlun Shan
• Feng = Peak
• Shanmai = .. mountain range?

TrueColour (talk) 17:57, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, shanmai means mountain range.--Pengyanan (talk) 18:26, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Maybe something like chain? I tried http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%84%89 ..? So it seems Tian Shan (range) is called Tian Mountain in Chinese. Also, hill and mountain in Chinese are all just "shan". From simply translation one would maybe always get X Mountain, but some of these might be called X Hill in English. I saw some X Shan called X Hill. TrueColour (talk) 23:38, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Ling? Sayan Mountains - 薩彥嶺, Sàyàn Lǐng - TrueColour (talk) 17:37, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Found 山口 Shānkǒu at

• Tanggula Pass - 唐古拉山口 - Tánggǔlā Shānkǒu
• Nathu La - 乃堆拉山口 - Nǎiduīlā Shānkǒu
• Kulma Pass - 阔勒买山口 - kuòlèmài shānkǒu

TrueColour (talk) 22:06, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/chinalan.htm Place Names in Chinese

-96.237.4.73 (talk) 04:05, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]