The story
- Chinese · derived from泗州“zhou on the Si River”
- Hanyu Pinyin · borrowed fromSìzhōu
- English todaySizhou
From Hanyu Pinyin Sìzhōu, from the Mandarin pronunciation of both Chinese 泗州 (Sìzhōu, “zhou on the Si River”) and 肆州 (Sìzhōu), used as both the name of the prefectures, subprefectures, &c. and their seats of government.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.