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Hsikang

Hsikang is the alternative form of Sikang.

Hsikang is the alternative form of Sigang.

Meaning of Sikang

Proper noun

Sikang

  1. A former province of China.
    • (1) At about the same time their number was 573,981 in the eastern half of Sikang Province, including nineteen districts east of the Kin-sha River; (2) and 321,945 in the western half.1949, Han-seng Chen, “The Kamba and their Relations with Central China”, in Frontier Land Systems in Southernmost China, Institute of Pacific Relations, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 73

Meaning of Sigang

Proper noun

Sigang

  1. A district of Tainan, Taiwan.
    • Six symptomatic leaf samples of three different tomato plants from each infected field were collected in Liouying (LY3, 7, and 8) and Sigang (SG9, 13, and 18) townships in Tainan County.2007 October, F.-J. Jan, S. K. Green, S. L. Shih, L. M. Lee, H. Ito, J. Kimbara, K. Hosoi, W. S. Tsai, “First Report of Tomato yellow leaf curl Thailand virus in Taiwan”, in Plant Disease, volume 91...
    Synonyms:
    Hsi-chiang

Origin of Hsikang

From Mandarin 西康 (Xīkāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-kʻang¹.

From Mandarin 西港 (Xīgǎng), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-kang³.

Questions about Hsikang

What is Hsikang the alternative form of?
Hsikang is the alternative form of Sikang.

Words near Hsikang in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hsikang (page history and authors); Sikang (page history and authors); Sigang (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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