深圳

Etymology
Originally as and referred to a market town located in present-day Dongmen, Luohu District, Shenzhen. The name is first attested in .

In 1979, Bao'an County of Guangdong was renamed and converted to Shenzhen City.

Alternative forms
The character "" is not included in the first Japanese encoding system (due to its inclusion in the JIS X 0213 encoding), so the city name is commonly written as.

Etymology
. Sen is not an expected on-reading of and may derive from 's on-reading of sen, which serves as a kan'yoon reading.