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Shan-hsi

Shan-hsi is the alternative form of Shanxi.

Meaning of Shanxi

Proper noun

Shanxi

  1. A province in the northern part of China. Capital: Taiyuan.
    • Shi-whang-ti having obſerv’d in viſiting his Empire that the Northern Provinces, eſpecially Pe-che-li, Shan-ſi, and Shen-ſi, were much expoſed to the ſudden Incurſions of the Tartars ; he fent a formidable Army, which having driven them back a great way beyond the Frontiers of the Empire, he...[1738, A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet, volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. Du Halde, →OCLC, page 172

Origin of Shan-hsi

From Mandarin 山西 (Shānxī) Wade–Giles romanization: Shan¹-hsi¹.

Questions about Shan-hsi

What is Shan-hsi the alternative form of?
Shan-hsi is the alternative form of Shanxi.

Words near Shan-hsi in the dictionary

  1. shamyanas
  2. shan
  3. Shan State
  4. Shan Van Vocht
  5. shan't
  6. Shan-hsi
  7. Shan-t'ou
  8. Shan-tung
  9. Shana
  10. shana tova
  11. shanachie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shan-hsi (page history and authors); Shanxi (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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