"Hsian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1921, Eric Teichman, Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 214",
          "text": "As regards other possible railways in Shensi and Kansu not yet definitely projected, the most attractive is a line from the neighbourhood of Chingtzu Kuan in south-western Honan up the Tan River valley and across the Ch’inling Shan to Hsian.",
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          "ref": "1967, Zoral Coberly, Elga Coberly, Dragon Teeth, Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 45",
          "text": "We arrived in Lingpao, at that time the end of the railroad, early enough in the afternoon to get a room for the night in a hotel and to make arrangement for a truck to take us to Hsian, the capital of Shensi Province, the next day.",
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          "ref": "1972, Marina Warner, “A Typhoon in the Apple Tree”, in The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, →LCCN, page 210",
          "text": "So the Sacred Chariot wheeled south, to pass through the mountains of Shansi to the inland province of Shensi, where the great ancient capital of the T’ang dynasty, Hsian, would make a princely refuge.",
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