what do these words mean?

[FUllmoonfever]

shanghai shi means?

[alexss]

shang:
1. an adjective, upper, up, 2. a preposition, over, above
hai: sea

In Suzhou, the "zhou", like Grace's means an administrative division, or a city, and many chinese cities have the character, changzhou, yangzhou, xuzhou...

[alexss]

is that the literal translation?

what does Su mean?

I'm trying to figure out what some words mean.

Like for example......Wuxi

East Venice of the world is not a literal translation of suzhou but describes the city has a lot of rivers, lakes...

[FUllmoonfever]

so jiangsu means river of life?

[alexss]

Jiangsu has a long history as one of Chinese provinces and the province had two major "Zhou" (cities) in its ancent time, Jiangning (an old name of Nanjing) and Suzhou. The province takes the first character from each of the two cities to form its own name, Jiang-Su.

[FUllmoonfever]

ok,

thanks

is there a place to learn all this?

[alexss]

This webpage's introduction for Jiangsu may provide some info about it.

[FUllmoonfever]

what does Nantong mean?

nan= south

tong=?

[tor.liu]

Hi, tong means: go through or transfer, transportation. Nantong is located just on the northern bank of Changjiang, Yangtzi River, and is important for traffic from northern China to sorthern China.

[alexss]

is there a place to learn all this?

No single place could do this all and I think time is critical. It may take you a while to know everythings.