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Wanhsien

Wanhsien is the alternative form of Wanxian.

Meaning of Wanxian

Proper noun

Wanxian

  1. (historical) Synonym of Wanzhou (formerly called Wan County).
    • The Tiefengshan Anticline of Wanxian county, Sichuan Province, is a reversed anticline composed of Triassic and Jurassic rocks and has an axis oriented towards the NE.1999, “Geology”, in Guo Huadong, editor, Radar Remote Sensing Applications in China, Taylor & Francis, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134, column 1
    Synonyms:
    Wanzhou

Origin of Wanhsien

Borrowed from Mandarin 萬縣／万县 (Wànxiàn) Wade–Giles romanization: Wan⁴-hsien⁴.

Questions about Wanhsien

What is Wanhsien the alternative form of?
Wanhsien is the alternative form of Wanxian.

Words near Wanhsien in the dictionary

  1. Wangus
  2. Wangyi
  3. wanhope
  4. wanhopes
  5. wanhorn
  6. Wanhsien
  7. Wanhua
  8. waniand
  9. wanigan
  10. wanigans
  11. waning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wanhsien (page history and authors); Wanxian (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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