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Szechuen

Szechuen is the obsolete spelling 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

Questions about Szechuen

What is Szechuen the obsolete spelling of?
Szechuen is the obsolete spelling of Sichuan.

Words near Szechuen in the dictionary

  1. Szechuan button
  2. Szechuan buttons
  3. Szechuan lovage
  4. Szechuan pepper
  5. Szechuan peppers
  6. Szechuen
  7. Szechwan
  8. Szechwanese
  9. Szeged
  10. Szekel
  11. Szekels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Szechuen (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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