Tsin
See also: tsin, tsín, tSín, and tsʼin
English
Proper noun
Tsin
- (obsolete, historical geography) Alternative form of Qin: the Chinese region, state, dynasty, era, and empire.
- 1878, Thomas Rawson Birks translating Franz Delitzsch's citation of Neumann in his Commentary on the Book of Isaiah, p. 247:
- The name Θῖναι, Strabo, Σῖναι, Ptol., Τζίνιτζα, Kosmas, did not obtain currency first from the founder of the dynasty Tsin; but, long before this, Tsin was the name of a feudal kingdom in Shensi, one of the western provinces of the Sinese land, and Feitsa, the first feudal King of Tsin, began to reign as early as b.c. 897.
- 1878, Thomas Rawson Birks translating Franz Delitzsch's citation of Neumann in his Commentary on the Book of Isaiah, p. 247:
Anagrams
- Inst., NIST, NTIS, TINs, inst., ints, isn't, nits, snit, tins