Gansu

See also: gansu and Gānsù

English

Alternative forms

• Kansu, Kansuh, Kan-suh (obsolete)
• (from Wade–Giles) Kan-su

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 甘肅／甘肃 (Gānsù).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

Gansu

1. A province in northwestern China. Capital: Lanzhou.
   • 2021 April 27, “Wall of sand engulfs Chinese town”, in France 24‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 April 2021:

     A towering wall of sand rushed over factories and apartment blocks in northwestern China's Gansu province as seasonal sandstorms barrelled across the country, causing air pollution and traffic accidents.
     Aerial images as it struck showed an apocalyptic scene as a billowing cloud of yellow dust smothered Gansu's Linze county on Sunday.

Descendants

• Latin: gansuensis

Translations

province of China

• Arabic: قَانْسُو‎ m (qansū), غَانْسُو‎ m (ḡansū)
• Burmese: ကန်းစု (kan:cu.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甘肅 (zh), 甘肃 (zh) (Gānsù)

• Czech: Kan-su
• Finnish: Gansu
• Georgian: განსუ (gansu)
• Greek: Κανσού (el) f (Kansoú)
• Hungarian: Kanszu (hu)
• Japanese: 甘粛 (かんしゅく, Kanshuku)
• Korean: 간쑤 (Ganssu), 감숙 (gamsuk)
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: Гансу (Gansu)
• Manchu: ᡬᠠᠨᠰᡠ (g'ansu), ᡬᠠᠨ
  ᠰᡠ (g'an su)
• Marathi: कान्सु (kānsu)
• Mongolian: Ганьсү (Ganʹsü)
• Polish: Gansu
• Russian: Ганьсу́ f (Ganʹsú) (indeclinable)
• Thai: กานซู่, กังซก
• Tibetan: ཀན་སུའུ (kan su'u)
• Uyghur: گەنسۇ‎ (gensu)
• Vietnamese: Cam Túc (vi)
• Zhuang: Ganhsuz

Anagrams

• Angus, Aungs, Guans, Sagun, Sangu, Sunga, guans, gunas, gusan, saung, sugan, sunga