"Sichuan" meaning in English

See Sichuan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈsɪt͡ʃ.wɑn/, /ˈsɛʃ.wɑn/, /ˈsɛt͡ʃ.wɑn/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 四川 (Sìchuān), a contraction of the Southern Song 四川路 (Sìchuān lù). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn-pinyin|-}} Hanyu Pinyin, {{lang|zh|四川}} 四川, {{uder|en|cmn|-}} Mandarin, {{der|en|zh|四川|tr=Sìchuān}} Chinese 四川 (Sìchuān) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Sichuan
  1. A province in central China. Capital: Chengdu. Wikipedia link: Cambridge University Press, Sichuan Categories (place): Places in China, Political subdivisions, Provinces of China, Sichuan Synonyms: Szechuan, Szechwan, Ssu-ch'uan (alt: Wade–Giles), Suchuen [obsolete], Szechuen Derived forms: Sichuanese, Sichuan lovage (taxonomic: Ligustrum sinense), Sichuan pepper (taxonomic: Zanthoxylum spp.) Related terms (Autonomous regions): Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang Related terms (Municipalities): Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing Related terms (Provinces): Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan · Yunnan · Zhejiang (english: claimed) Related terms (Special administrative regions): Hong Kong · Macau Translations (a province in China): سِيشْوَان (sišwān) [masculine] (Arabic), سِيتْشْوَان (sitšwān) [masculine] (Arabic), Սիչուան (Sičʻuan) (Armenian), Siqcuany (Bouyei), စီချွမ် (cihkywam) (Burmese), 四川 (sei³ cyun¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 四川 (Sìchuān) (Chinese Mandarin), S'-čchuan (Czech), Sečuán (Czech), Sečuánsko [neuter] (Czech), Sichuan [masculine] (French), სიჩუანი (sičuani) (Georgian), Σιτσουάν (Sitsouán) (Greek), סְה-צְ'ווַאן (Hebrew), סצ'ואן (Hebrew), सिचुआन (sicuān) [masculine] (Hindi), Szecsuan (Hungarian), 四川 (Shisen) (alt: しせん) (Japanese), ស៊ីឆួន (siicʰuən) (Khmer), 쓰촨 (Sseuchwan) (Korean), 사천 (Sacheon) (Korean), ᦉᦹᧈᦌᦸᧃᧈ (ṡue¹soan¹) (), Сечуан (Sečuan) (Macedonian), ᠰᡟᠴᡠᠸᠠᠨ (sycuwan) (Manchu), ᠰᡟ ᠴᡠᠸᠠᠨ (sy cuwan) (Manchu), सिचुआन (sicuān) [masculine] (Marathi), Сычуань (Syčuanʹ) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), ᠰᠧᠴᠤᠸᠠᠨ (sēčuwan) [Mongolian] (Mongolian), ꌧꍧ (syp chuo) (Nuosu), Syczuan (Polish), Sichuan [masculine] (Portuguese), Setsuan [masculine] (Portuguese), Szechwan [masculine] (Portuguese), Сычуа́нь (Syčuánʹ) [masculine] (Russian), Sichuan (Spanish), Sichuan [neuter] (Swedish), เสฉวน (sěe-chǔuan) (Thai), སི་ཁྲོན་ཞིང་ཆེན (si khron zhing chen) (Tibetan), Сичуа́нь (Syčuánʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), Tứ Xuyên (Vietnamese), Swconh (Zhuang)
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Alternative forms

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          "text": "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 of Sichuan 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).",
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          "roman": "Syčuanʹ",
          "sense": "a province in China",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "Сычуань"
        },
        {
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "sēčuwan",
          "sense": "a province in China",
          "tags": [
            "Mongolian"
          ],
          "word": "ᠰᠧᠴᠤᠸᠠᠨ"
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          "code": "ii",
          "lang": "Nuosu",
          "roman": "syp chuo",
          "sense": "a province in China",
          "word": "ꌧꍧ"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "a province in China",
          "word": "Syczuan"
        },
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a province in China",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "Sichuan"
        },
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a province in China",
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          ],
          "word": "Szechwan"
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          "lang": "Russian",
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          "sense": "a province in China",
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            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Сычуа́нь"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a province in China",
          "word": "Sichuan"
        },
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "a province in China",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Sichuan"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "sěe-chǔuan",
          "sense": "a province in China",
          "word": "เสฉวน"
        },
        {
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "si khron zhing chen",
          "sense": "a province in China",
          "word": "སི་ཁྲོན་ཞིང་ཆེན"
        },
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "Syčuánʹ",
          "sense": "a province in China",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Сичуа́нь"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "a province in China",
          "word": "Tứ Xuyên"
        },
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          "code": "za",
          "lang": "Zhuang",
          "sense": "a province in China",
          "word": "Swconh"
        }
      ],
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        "Cambridge University Press",
        "Sichuan"
      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɪt͡ʃ.wɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛʃ.wɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛt͡ʃ.wɑn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Sichuan"
}
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Sichuanese"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Ligustrum sinense",
      "word": "Sichuan lovage"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Zanthoxylum spp.",
      "word": "Sichuan pepper"
    }
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      "sense": "Provinces",
      "word": "Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan · Yunnan · Zhejiang"
    },
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      "sense": "Autonomous regions",
      "word": "Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang"
    },
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      "sense": "Municipalities",
      "word": "Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing"
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      "sense": "Special administrative regions",
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        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
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        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
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        "Terms with Lü translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Manchu translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Marathi translations",
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        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
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        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Thai translations",
        "Terms with Tibetan translations",
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        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
        "Terms with Zhuang translations",
        "Tibetan terms with redundant script codes",
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        {
          "ref": "[1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 242:",
          "text": "In Suchue, on Mount Tiexe, the ſtones that grow there being burnt in the fire, drop Iron, which is very fit for the making Swords.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[1671, Arnoldus Montanus, translated by John Ogilby, Atlas Chinensis, London: Tho. Johnson, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 512:",
          "text": "SUchuen, which ſignifies Four Waters, is a great Countrey, ſeparated by the River Kiang, into a Northern and Southern part ; Bordering in the Eaſt upon Huquang ; in the South-Eaſt upon Queicheu ; and hath in the North-Eaſt and North Xenſi ; in the North-Weſt, the People Koningguangi and Kiang ; or the Countreys which Paulus Venetus makes to be Preſter John's, which the Chineſes by one general Name call'd Sifan ; and in the Weſt, Tibet, and the moſt Southern part of the Province of Junnan.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Angus W. McDonald, Jr., “Power”, in The Urban Origins of Rural Revolution: Elites and the Masses in Hunan Province, China, 1911-1927, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 50-51:",
          "text": "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 of Sichuan 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).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 December 12, Beijing Monitoring Desk, “China reports new African swine fever outbreaks in Sichuan, Qinghai provinces”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2018-12-12, Health News:",
          "text": "China’s agriculture ministry said on Wednesday two new African swine fever outbreaks were confirmed in Sichuan and Qinghai provinces.\nThe new case in the city of Bazhong in Sichuan killed 19 of 117 pigs present on a farm, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement on its website.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 May 27, “Rare albino panda discovered in China”, in DW News, archived from the original on 2019-05-27, News:",
          "text": "About 80 percent of wild giant pandas live in Sichuan province. The rest are in Gansu and Shaanxi.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A province in central China. Capital: Chengdu."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "province",
          "province"
        ],
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          "China",
          "China#English"
        ],
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          "Chengdu",
          "Chengdu#English"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Cambridge University Press",
        "Sichuan"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɪt͡ʃ.wɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛʃ.wɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛt͡ʃ.wɑn/"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "Szechuan"
    },
    {
      "word": "Szechwan"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Wade–Giles",
      "word": "Ssu-ch'uan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
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      "word": "Suchuen"
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    {
      "word": "Szechuen"
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "sišwān",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "سِيشْوَان"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "sitšwān",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "سِيتْشْوَان"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "Sičʻuan",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Սիչուան"
    },
    {
      "code": "pcc",
      "lang": "Bouyei",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Siqcuany"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "cihkywam",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "စီချွမ်"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "sei³ cyun¹",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "四川"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Sìchuān",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "四川"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "S'-čchuan"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Sečuán"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Sečuánsko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sichuan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "sičuani",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "სიჩუანი"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "Sitsouán",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Σιτσουάν"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "סְה-צְ'ווַאן"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "סצ'ואן"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "sicuān",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "सिचुआन"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Szecsuan"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しせん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Shisen",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "四川"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "siicʰuən",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "ស៊ីឆួន"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "Sseuchwan",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "쓰촨"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "Sacheon",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "사천"
    },
    {
      "code": "khb",
      "lang": "Lü",
      "roman": "ṡue¹soan¹",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "ᦉᦹᧈᦌᦸᧃᧈ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "Sečuan",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Сечуан"
    },
    {
      "code": "mnc",
      "lang": "Manchu",
      "roman": "sycuwan",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "ᠰᡟᠴᡠᠸᠠᠨ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mnc",
      "lang": "Manchu",
      "roman": "sy cuwan",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "ᠰᡟ ᠴᡠᠸᠠᠨ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "sicuān",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "सिचुआन"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "Syčuanʹ",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "Сычуань"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "sēčuwan",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "Mongolian"
      ],
      "word": "ᠰᠧᠴᠤᠸᠠᠨ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ii",
      "lang": "Nuosu",
      "roman": "syp chuo",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "ꌧꍧ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Syczuan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sichuan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Setsuan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Szechwan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Syčuánʹ",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Сычуа́нь"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Sichuan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Sichuan"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "sěe-chǔuan",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "เสฉวน"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "si khron zhing chen",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "སི་ཁྲོན་ཞིང་ཆེན"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "Syčuánʹ",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Сичуа́нь"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Tứ Xuyên"
    },
    {
      "code": "za",
      "lang": "Zhuang",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Swconh"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Sichuan"
}

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