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Ssu-ch'uan

Ssu-ch'uan is the alternative form of Sichuan.

Meaning of Sichuan

Proper noun

Sichuan

  1. A province in central China. Capital: Chengdu.
    • In Suchue, on Mount Tiexe, the ſtones that grow there being burnt in the fire, drop Iron, which is very fit for the making Swords.[1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 242

Origin of Ssu-ch'uan

From Mandarin 四川 (Sìchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Ssŭ⁴-chʻuan¹.

Questions about Ssu-ch'uan

What is Ssu-ch'uan the alternative form of?
Ssu-ch'uan is the alternative form of Sichuan.

Words near Ssu-ch'uan in the dictionary

  1. sstrange squark
  2. sstrange squarks
  3. SSTs
  4. SSTV
  5. SSU
  6. Ssu-ch'uan
  7. ssu-ho-yuan
  8. Ssu-p'ing
  9. Ssupingkai
  10. SSW
  11. SSZ

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ssu-ch'uan (page history and authors); Sichuan (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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