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Sijiangou

Syllables: Si·jian·gou

Sijiangou proper noun: an archaeological site in Sijian, Zhicheng, Jiyuan, Henan, China.

Proper noun

Sijiangou

  1. An archaeological site in Sijian, Zhicheng, Jiyuan, Henan, China.
    • As a whole the mortuary pottery of Ssu-chien-kou, including all sorts of household vessels, architectural models, human figures and animals is altogether of very fine quality in art. Tomb 16 of Ssu-chien-kou has yielded a[...][1982, 香港中文大學中國文化硏究所學報 [The Journal of the Institute of Chinese Studies of the Chinese University of Hongkong], volumes 13-14, Chinese University of Hongkong, →OCLC, page 212
    • The tree was excavated from Tomb 8 at Jiyuan, Sijiangou in Henan Province.1994, Bulletin, numbers 66-67, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28

Examples of Sijiangou in a sentence

  • A tree, made of ceramic glazed in green and red, dating from the Western Han Dynasty, 63 centimeters high was found in a tomb near Sijiangou of the Jiyuan district in the province of Henan.2002, Silvia Freiin Ebner von Eschenbach, “Trees of Life and Trees of Death in China: The Magical Quality of Trees in a Deforested...
  • Among them, a winnowing-machine model unearthed in Sijiangou, Jiyuan could be traced back to the period of the Western Han (Fig. 23) [13].2009, F. Lisheng, T. Qingjun, “Crank-Connecting Rod Mechanism”, in International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms, →ISBN...
  • This pottery lamp, one of the multitude of the potteries unearthed in Sijiangou Han tomb, was discovered at the meeting place of the front chamber and the passageway which leads to the back chamber.2021 May 14, “Red glazed pottery lamp with embracing bears design”, in acf, editor, Henan Museum, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2022:

Forms of Sijiangou

alternative misspellingSijian'gou

Origin of Sijiangou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 泗澗溝／泗涧沟 (Sìjiàngōu).

Questions about Sijiangou

What does Sijiangou mean?
Sijiangou means an archaeological site in Sijian, Zhicheng, Jiyuan, Henan, China.
How do you use Sijiangou in a sentence?
A tree, made of ceramic glazed in green and red, dating from the Western Han Dynasty, 63 centimeters high was found in a tomb near Sijiangou of the Jiyuan district in the province of Henan.
What part of speech is Sijiangou?
Sijiangou is a proper noun.

Words near Sijiangou in the dictionary

  1. SII
  2. Siirt
  3. SIJ
  4. Sijhih
  5. Sijian'gou
  6. Sijiangou
  7. Sijilmasa
  8. sijo
  9. SIJORI
  10. sijos
  11. SIJs

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