Sichuan

See also: Sìchuān

English

Alternative forms

• Szechuan, Szechwan
• Ssu-ch'uan (Wade–Giles)
• Suchuen (obsolete)
• Szechuen

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 四川 (Sìchuān), a contraction of the Southern Song 四川 (Sìchuān)路 (lù).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪt͡ʃ.wɑn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛʃ.wɑn/, /ˈsɛt͡ʃ.wɑn/

Proper noun

Sichuan

1. A province in central China. Capital: Chengdu.
   • [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^[2], London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 242:

     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.]

   • 1978, Angus W. McDonald, Jr., “Power”, in The Urban Origins of Rural Revolution: Elites and the Masses in Hunan Province, China, 1911-1927‎^[3], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 50-51:

     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 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).

   • 2018 December 12, Beijing Monitoring Desk, “China reports new African swine fever outbreaks in Sichuan, Qinghai provinces”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 12 December 2018, Health News‎^[5]:

     China’s agriculture ministry said on Wednesday two new African swine fever outbreaks were confirmed in Sichuan and Qinghai provinces.
     The 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.

   • 2019 May 27, “Rare albino panda discovered in China”, in DW News‎^[6], archived from the original on 27 May 2019, News‎^[7]:

     About 80 percent of wild giant pandas live in Sichuan province. The rest are in Gansu and Shaanxi.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Sichuan.

Derived terms

• Sichuanese
• Sichuan lovage (Ligustrum sinense)
• Sichuan pepper (Zanthoxylum spp.)

Translations

a province in China

• Arabic: سِيشْوَان m (sišwān), سِيتْشْوَان m (sitšwān)
• Armenian: Սիչուան (Sičʻuan)
• Bouyei: Siqcuany
• Burmese: စီချွမ် (cihkywam)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 四川 (sei³ cyun¹)

  Mandarin: 四川 (zh) (Sìchuān)

• Czech: S'-čchuan, Sečuán, Sečuánsko n
• French: Sichuan (fr) m
• Georgian: სიჩუანი (sičuani)
• Greek: Σιτσουάν (Sitsouán)
• Hebrew: סְה-צְ'ווַאן, סצ'ואן
• Hindi: सिचुआन m (sicuān)
• Hungarian: Szecsuan (hu)
• Japanese: 四川 (しせん, Shisen)
• Khmer: ស៊ីឆួន (siicʰuən)
• Korean: 쓰촨 (Sseuchwan), 사천 (ko) (Sacheon)
• Lü: ᦉᦹᧈᦌᦸᧃᧈ (ṡue¹soan¹)
• Macedonian: Сечуан (Sečuan)
• Manchu: ᠰᡟᠴᡠᠸᠠᠨ (sycuwan)
• Marathi: सिचुआन m (sicuān)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Сычуань (Syčuanʹ)

  Mongolian: ᠰᠧᠴᠤᠸᠠᠨ (sēčuwan)

• Nuosu: ꌧꍧ (syp chuo)
• Polish: Syczuan
• Portuguese: Sichuan m, Setsuan m, Szechwan m
• Russian: Сычуа́нь (ru) m (Syčuánʹ)
• Spanish: Sichuan
• Swedish: Sichuan n
• Thai: เสฉวน (sěe-chǔuan)
• Tibetan: སི་ཁྲོན་ཞིང་ཆེན (si khron zhing chen)
• Ukrainian: Сичуа́нь f (Syčuánʹ)
• Vietnamese: Tứ Xuyên (vi)
• Zhuang: Swconh

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [si.t͡ʃuˈan]

Proper noun

Sichuan m

1. Sichuan (a province in central China)

Derived terms

• sichuanès

French

Alternative forms

• Sichouan (misspelling)

Proper noun

Sichuan m

1. Sichuan (a province in central China)

   Holonym: Chine

   Meronyms: Chengdu, Chongqing

Derived terms

• Sichuanais
• sichuanais

 

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Sujuão
• Setsuan, Szechwan

Proper noun

Sichuan m

1. Sichuan (a province in central China)