Sichuan

See also: Sìchuān

English

Alternative forms

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

   • 2018 December 12, Beijing Monitoring Desk, “China reports new African swine fever outbreaks in Sichuan, Qinghai provinces”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 12 December 2018, Health News‎^[4]:

     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.

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 (Sičʿuan)
• 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)
• Polish: Syczuan
• Portuguese: Sichuan m, Setsuan m, Szechwan m
• Russian: Сычуа́нь (ru) m (Syčuánʹ)
• Sichuan Yi: ꌧꍧ (syp chuo)
• 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

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /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

• Setsuan, Szechwan

Proper noun

Sichuan m

1. Sichuan (a province in central China)