Sichuan

Sichuan

See also: Sìchuān

English

Alternative forms

• Szechuan, Szechwan
• (from Wade–Giles) Ssu-ch'uan
• (obsolete) Suchuen
• Szechuen

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 四川 (Sìchuān), a contraction of the Southern Song 四川路.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪt͡ʃ.wɑn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛʃ.wɑn/, /ˈsɛt͡ʃ.wɑn/

Proper noun

Sichuan

1. A province in central China. Capital: Chengdu.
   • [1669, Nievhoff, John, John Ogilby, transl., An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎, London: John Macock, OCLC 561227535, page 242:

     In Suchue, on Mount Tiexe, the ſtones that grow there being burnt in the fire, drop Iron, which is very fit for the making Swords.]

Derived terms

• Sichuanese
• Sichuan lovage (Ligustrum sinense)
• Sichuan pepper (Zanthoxylum spp.)

Translations

a province in China

Arabic: سِيشْوَان‎ m (sišwān), سِيتْشْوَان‎ m (sitšwān) Armenian: Սիչուան (Sičʿuan) Bouyei: Siqcuany Burmese: စီချွမ် (cihkywam) Chinese: Cantonese: 四川 (sei3 cyun1) Mandarin: 四川 (zh) (Sìchuān) Czech: S'-čchuan, Sečuán, Sečuánsko n French: Sichuan (fr) m Georgian: სიჩუანი (sičuani) Greek: Σιτσουάν (Sitsouán) Hebrew: סְה-צְ'ווַאן‎, סצ'ואן‎ Hindi: सिचुआन m (sicuān) Hungarian: Szecsuan (hu) Japanese: 四川 (しせん, Shisen) Khmer: ស៊ីឆួន (siicʰuən) Korean: 쓰촨 (Sseuchwan), 사천 (ko) (Sacheon) Lü: ᦉᦹᧈᦌᦸᧃᧈ (ṡue¹soan¹) Macedonian: Сечуан (Sečuan) Manchu: ᠰᡟᠴᡠᠸᠠᠨ (sycuwan) Marathi: सिचुआन m (sicuān) Polish: Syczuan Portuguese: Sichuan m, Setsuan m, Szechwan m Russian: Сычуа́нь (ru) m (Syčuánʹ) Sichuan Yi: ꌧꍧ (syp chuo) Spanish: Sichuan Swedish: Sichuan n Thai: เสฉวน (sěe-chǔuan) Tibetan: སི་ཁྲོན་ཞིང་ཆེན (si khron zhing chen) Ukrainian: Сичуа́нь f (Syčuánʹ) Vietnamese: Tứ Xuyên (vi) Zhuang: Swconh

References

1. “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China‎, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, LCCN 79-42627, OCLC 781411242, pages 476, 484: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Ssu-ch'uan (Sichuan) 四川”

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /si.t͡ʃuˈan/

Proper noun

Sichuan m

1. Sichuan (a province in central China)

Derived terms

• sichuanès

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French

Alternative forms

• Sichouan (misspelling)

Proper noun

Sichuan m

1. Sichuan (a province in central China)

   Holonym: Chine

   Meronyms: Chengdu, Chongqing

Derived terms

• Sichuanais
• sichuanais

 

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Setsuan, Szechwan

Proper noun

Sichuan m

1. Sichuan (a province in central China)