Sikang
See also: sikang
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 西康 (Xīkāng).
Proper noun
Sikang
- A former province of China.
- 1949, Chen, Han-seng, “The Kamba and their Relations with Central China”, in Frontier Land Systems in Southernmost China, Institute of Pacific Relations, LCCN 49-7806, OCLC 461032765, page 73:
- (1) At about the same time their number was 573,981 in the eastern half of Sikang Province, including nineteen districts east of the Kin-sha River; (2) and 321,945 in the western half.
- 1972, Whitehead, G. Kenneth, “The Deer of Europe and Northern Asia”, in Deer of the world, →ISBN, OCLC 553934, pages 84-85:
- The southern limit of the Roe deer in China seems to be about latitude 30°N but in Sikang and Szechwan provinces it may extend slightly south of this latitude in the Kinsha River area.
- 2008 [1946], Queen, Ellery, “The Adventure of the Needle's Eye”, in Paul D. Staudohar, editor, Murder: Short & Sweet (Fiction), Chicago: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, OCLC 227927880, page 205:
- Where five channels in the Northwest Passage were known, Ericsson opened a sixth. He found a peak in Sikang Province of western China, in the Amne Machin Range, which was almost a thousand feet higher than Everest, but he lost his instruments and his companions and Mount Everest remained on the books the highest mountain on the planet.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Sikang.
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Translations
historical province
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Further reading
- “Sikang”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- Sikang at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “Sikang”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “Sikang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
Anagrams
- Gaskin, aksing, asking, gaskin, kiangs