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Meaning of shang | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
/ʃæŋ/

Definitions

  1. an ancient dynasty in China
    historical
  2. A Chinese unit of land area equivalent to 15 mu or about one hectare.

Equivalents

中文

Examples

“Wilma Fairbank strongly supports the piece mold theory but points out that the mastery of bronze technology by the Shang people was an outgrowth of their earlier mastery of ceramic technology.”
“In the Shang and Chou periods our knowledge from archaeology of ordinary dwellings is thus far poor, but something can be said of the more pretentious edifices.”
“Hsing-t'ai, Han-tan, and Shih-chia-chuang are thus among the numerous Shang sites marked by heavy upper Erh-li-kang cultural manifestations.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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