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Sichuan

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See also:Sìchuān

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From theHanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of theMandarin pronunciation ofChinese四川(Sìchuān), a contraction of the Southern Song四川路(Sìchuān lù).

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Sichuan

  2. Aprovince in centralChina. Capital:Chengdu.
    • [1669,John Nievhoff, translated byJohn Ogilby,An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎[3], London: John Macock,→OCLC,page242:
      InSuchue, on MountTiexe, the ſtones that grow there being burnt in the fire, drop Iron, which is very fit for the making Swords.]
    • [1671,Arnoldus Montanus, translated byJohn Ogilby,Atlas Chinensis‎[4], London: Tho. Johnson, translation of original in Dutch,→OCLC,page512:
      SUchuen, which ſignifiesFour Waters, is a great Countrey, ſeparated by the RiverKiang, into a Northern and Southern part ; Bordering in the Eaſt uponHuquang ; in the South-Eaſt uponQueicheu ; and hath in the North-Eaſt and NorthXenſi ; in the North-Weſt, the PeopleKoningguangi andKiang ; or the Countreys whichPaulus Venetus makes to bePreſter John's, which theChineſes by one general Name call'dSifan ; and in the Weſt,Tibet, and the moſt Southern part of the Province ofJunnan.]
    • 1978, Angus W. McDonald, Jr., “Power”, inThe Urban Origins of Rural Revolution: Elites and the Masses in Hunan Province, China, 1911-1927‎[5],University of California Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,pages50-51:
      Such was the argument of three highly placed gentlemen of Hubei, graduates of the Japanese military academy and losers in Hubei’s internal conflicts who appeared in Changsha in early 1921. It was also the argument of Xiong Ke-wu, a former military governor ofSichuan whose June visit was concealed behind layers of lies and half truths (he said he was in Changsha to study self-government; gossips in the know said that he was secretly a spokesman for Wang Zhan-yuan).
    • 2018 December 12, Beijing Monitoring Desk, “China reports new African swine fever outbreaks in Sichuan, Qinghai provinces”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor,Reuters‎[6], archived fromthe original on12 December 2018, Health News‎[7]:
      China’s agriculture ministry said on Wednesday two new African swine fever outbreaks were confirmed inSichuan and Qinghai provinces.
      The new case in the city of Bazhong inSichuan killed 19 of 117 pigs present on a farm, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement on its website.
    • 2019 May 27, “Rare albino panda discovered in China”, inDW News‎[8], archived fromthe original on27 May 2019, News‎[9]:
      About 80 percent of wild giant pandas live inSichuan province. The rest are in Gansu and Shaanxi.
    • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:Sichuan.

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a province in China

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Province-level divisions of thePeople's Republic of China in English(layout ·text)
Provinces:Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan (claimed) · Yunnan · Zhejiang
Autonomous regions:Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang
Municipalities:Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing
Special administrative regions:Hong Kong · Macau

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  1. ^Brian Hook, editor (1982), “Selected Glossary”, inThe Cambridge Encyclopedia of China‎[1],Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,pages476, 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”
  2. ^Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Szechwan or Szu-ch’uan”, inThe Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[2], Morningside Heights, NY:Columbia University Press,→OCLC,page1858, column 2

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Sichuan m

  1. Sichuan (aprovince in centralChina)

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Sichuan m

  1. Sichuan (aprovince in centralChina)
    Holonym:Chine
    Meronyms:Chengdu,Chongqing

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Sichuan m

  1. Sichuan (aprovince in centralChina)
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