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Shansi

Shansi is the obsolete spelling 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

Questions about Shansi

What is Shansi the obsolete spelling of?
Shansi is the obsolete spelling of Shanxi.

Words near Shansi in the dictionary

  1. Shanqella
  2. Shanquella
  3. Shans
  4. Shanscrit
  5. Shanshan
  6. Shansi
  7. Shanskrit
  8. shant
  9. Shant'ou
  10. Shanta
  11. Shantae

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shansi (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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