🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

Shenzhen

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Shenzhen

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Shenzhen/ˈʃɛnˈʒʌn/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Shenzhen é uma cidade global localizada na província de Guangdong."

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As noun
  1. 1

    A major city in Guangdong Province, China, known as a global technology and manufacturing hub.

    "Many of the world's consumer electronics are manufactured in Shenzhen."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Chinese characters 深 (shēn, meaning deep) and 圳 (zhèn, meaning drainage ditch or irrigation channel in local Cantonese dialects). Historically a market town, it transformed rapidly in the late 20th century into China's premier technology and hardware manufacturing hub, frequently earning the epithet 'China's Silicon Valley'.

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