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Hsi-ch'uan

Hsi-ch'uan is the alternative form of Xichuan.

Meaning of Xichuan

Proper noun

Xichuan

  1. A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.
    • Some ten thousand peasants in Hsichuan county in Honan province used hoes, scythes, wooden poles, etc. as weapons and took over the county seat. They expanded their forces and held areas in two neighboring counties. The CC sent a force of one hundred thousand troops and fought the peasants for...[1960, Ching-wen Chow, “The Awakening of the Chinese People”, in Lai Ming, transl., edited by Lai Ming, Ten Years of Storm: The True Story of the Communist Regime in China, New York: Holt, Rinehart...

Origin of Hsi-ch'uan

From Mandarin 淅川 (Xīchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-chʻuan¹.

Questions about Hsi-ch'uan

What is Hsi-ch'uan the alternative form of?
Hsi-ch'uan is the alternative form of Xichuan.

Words near Hsi-ch'uan in the dictionary

  1. HSG
  2. HSH
  3. HSI
  4. Hsi Hu
  5. Hsi-an
  6. Hsi-ch'uan
  7. Hsi-ling
  8. Hsi-ning
  9. Hsi-sha
  10. Hsi-shuang-pan-na
  11. Hsi-shui

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hsi-ch'uan (page history and authors); Xichuan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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