See Shanxi on Wiktionary
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"Taiyuan#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃɑnˈʃi/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"raw_tags": [
"from Hanyu Pinyin"
],
"tags": [
"also"
],
"word": "Shānxi"
},
{
"word": "Shan-hsi"
},
{
"alt": "Wade–Giles",
"word": "Shanhsi"
},
{
"english": "Postal Romanization",
"word": "Shansi"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "Xansi"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "šānšī",
"sense": "province of China",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "شَانْشِي"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "Šansi",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "Շանսի"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "saan¹ sai¹",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "山西"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Shānxī",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "山西"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "Šan-si"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šansi",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "შანსი"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "Sansí",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "Σανσί"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "Sanhszi"
},
{
"alt": "さんせい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Sansei",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "山西"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Sansi",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "산시"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sanseo",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "산서"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "Šaņsji"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "Šansi"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "Šansji",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "Шансји"
},
{
"code": "mnc",
"lang": "Manchu",
"roman": "sansi",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "ᠰᠠᠨᠰᡳ"
},
{
"code": "mnc",
"lang": "Manchu",
"roman": "san si",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "ᠰᠠᠨ ᠰᡳ"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "śānśī",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "शान्शी"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"raw_tags": [
"Mongolian script"
],
"roman": "šan si",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "ᠱᠠᠨ ᠰᠢ"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "Šanʹsi",
"sense": "province of China",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "Шаньси"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Šanʹsí",
"sense": "province of China",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Шаньси́"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "Sơn Tây"
},
{
"code": "za",
"lang": "Zhuang",
"sense": "province of China",
"word": "Sanhsih"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Cambridge University Press",
"Shanxi"
],
"word": "Shanxi"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Hanyu Pinyin",
"English terms derived from Hanyu Pinyin",
"English terms derived from Mandarin",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English undefined derivations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cmn-pinyin",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Hanyu Pinyin",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cmn",
"3": "陝西"
},
"expansion": "Mandarin 陝西／陕西 (Shǎnxī)",
"name": "uder"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 陝西／陕西 (Shǎnxī).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Shanxi",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Shaanxi"
}
],
"categories": [
"English proscribed terms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, “Principles of Chinese Socialism”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China, Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 298:",
"text": "The \"Yenan Period,\" 1935-1947, was the decisive decade of the Chinese Revolution.*[…]\nLiu Bao-zhei had helped create the Yenan spirit; he had joined the Eighth Route Army in 1937, leaving his home in Henan Province to fight the Japanese in the North. We met Liu on a state farm nestled in the Nanniwan Valley, near Yenan. His face, rough and creased, reflected many years of labor in the harsh climate of northern Shanxi Province. Liu wore a towel tied about his head in the traditional peasant fashion of the area.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1984 [1983 September 2], Peter Thiele, “The Ancient Silk Road in Northwestern China Today”, in Yamamoto Tatsuro, editor, Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Congress of Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa, volume I, Tokyo: The Tōhō Gakkai (The Institute of Eastern Culture), →OCLC, page 376:",
"text": "My survey deals with the ancient silk road between the former Changan, now Xian in Shanxi (Shanhsi) Province, proceeds to the Gansu Province and finally to the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang. It is primarily the Northern route which led through the land of the Mongols, Tibetans and Uighurs.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1997, Donald J. Marion, The Chinese Filmography: The 2444 Feature Films Produced by Studios in the People's Republic of China from 1949 through 1995, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:",
"text": "After the Red Army sets up headquarters at Yanan in north Shanxi province, he accepts a frontline post in repelling the Japanese invasion, and becomes commander of the New Fourth Army.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2000 December 6, Mark Landler, “Could Terra-Cotta Warriors Be a Trojan Horse?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-19, World, page 2:",
"text": "A fervent believer in an afterlife, Qin Shihuang ordered his tomb to be guarded by 8,000 terra-cotta statues. This grandiose resting place was accidentally disinterred in 1976 by farmers digging a well in the ancient capital, Xian, during a drought.\nDr. Huang broached the idea of a terra-cotta exhibit on a trip to Shanxi Province, where Xian is located, three years ago.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Lü you ying yu jiao cheng",
"ref": "2002, “Cleaning the Yellow River”, in 修月祯 [Xiu Yuezhen], editor, 旅游英语教程 [Lü you ying yu jiao cheng], Beijing: Renmin University of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 256–257:",
"text": "Owing to soil erosion, some farmland has become totally barren. In Chenjiagedu Village, Fugu county, Shanxi Province, since all farmland was lost, the local people were obliged to travel several kilometers for fertile soil.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Guangqiu Xu, Imperial China, 617-1644 (World Eras), volume 7, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 98:",
"text": "634 ·The Palace of Great Clarity, an imperial resort including residential and official buildings, is constructed northwest of Chang’an in Shanxi Province.\n636 ·The Zhaoling (Clarity Tomb) of Emperor Taizong is built in Liquan County, Shanxi Province. The tomb includes the well-known stone sculpture Six Horses of the Clarity Tomb.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Fiona Fordyce, “Selenium Deficiency and Toxicity in the Environment”, in Essentials of Medical Geology: Impacts of the Natural Environment on Public Health, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 400:",
"text": "In China, an outbreak of endemic human selenosis was reported in Enshi District, Hubei Province, and in Ziyang County, Shanxi Province, during the 1960s.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, James MacManus, Ocean Devil, Harper Perennial, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 148:",
"text": "Production around the town of Ankang, a hundred miles south of Xian in Shanxi province, dropped by 25 per cent.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of Shaanxi."
],
"links": [
[
"Shaanxi",
"Shaanxi#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(proscribed) Alternative form of Shaanxi."
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"proscribed"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Shanxi"
],
"word": "Shanxi"
}
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