Hsian
See also: Hsi-an
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 西安 (Xī'ān), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-an¹.[1]
Proper noun
Hsian
- Alternative form of Xi'an
- 1967, Coberly, Zoral; Elga Coberly, Dragon Teeth, Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, LCCN 67-19719, OCLC 2019700, page 45:
- We arrived in Lingpao, at that time the end of the railroad, early enough in the afternoon to get a room for the night in a hotel and to make arrangement for a truck to take us to Hsian, the capital of Shensi Province, the next day.
- 1972, Warner, Marina, “A Typhoon in the Apple Tree”, in The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, →ISBN, LCCN 86-7909, page 210:
- So the Sacred Chariot wheeled south, to pass through the mountains of Shansi to the inland province of Shensi, where the great ancient capital of the T’ang dynasty, Hsian, would make a princely refuge.
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Translations
Xi'an — see Xi'an
References
- Xi'an, Wade-Giles romanization Hsi-an, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
- “Hsian, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
- Anish, Ishan, Naish, Nashi, Sahin, Sahni, Shain, Shani, Shina, Sinha, hains, nashi