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Hsien-yang

Hsien-yang is the alternative form of Xianyang.

Meaning of Xianyang

Proper noun

Xianyang

  1. A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.
    • The empire was divided into thirty-six ‘commanderies’. Each of these was controlled by a military and a civil governor, with an imperial inspector charged with overseeing them and reporting back to the Ch’in capital at Hsienyang.[1998, Chris Peers, “Shih Huang-Ti – The Tiger of Ch'in”, in Warlords of China: 700BC to AD1662, Arms and Armour Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62

Origin of Hsien-yang

From Mandarin 咸陽 (Xiányáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsien²-yang².

Questions about Hsien-yang

What is Hsien-yang the alternative form of?
Hsien-yang is the alternative form of Xianyang.

Words near Hsien-yang in the dictionary

  1. Hsiehs
  2. hsien
  3. Hsien-feng
  4. Hsien-ning
  5. Hsien-t'ao
  6. Hsien-yang
  7. Hsienning
  8. hsiens
  9. Hsikang
  10. HSIL
  11. Hsin-chiang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hsien-yang (page history and authors); Xianyang (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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