Etymology

Szechuan

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Mandarin 四川
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from四川
  2. English todaySzechuan

From the Postal Romanization of Nanjing court dialect Mandarin 四川 (Sìchuān).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.