Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Sichuan.
The silver earrings worn by the women of the Chin-chʻuan, a border district of Ssŭ-ch’uan inhabited by Tibetans, are shown in fig. 2.
1895, William Woodville Rockhill, Notes on the Ethnology of Tibet, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 6942 more examples
In the typical pagoda of the south-eastern provinces the successive stages decrease both in height and diameter; but as the Ssŭ-ch’uan border is passed cases begin to occur in which the fifth or sixth stories are of the same breadth, or as it seems, of even a greater breadth, than the base,[…]
1886, E. Colborne Baber, “Travels and Researches of the Interior of China”, in Royal Geographical Society: Supplementary Papers, volume I, London: John Murray, →OCLC, A Journey of Exploration in Western Ssŭ-ch’uan, page 21Great though the quantity of silk produced in the province of Ssŭ-ch’uan is, the output might be quadrupled if some means could be devised for delaying the hatching of the silkworm eggs.
1897, Alexander Hosie, “To the White Wax County, the Sacred Mount O-mei, and the Highest Navigable Point on the Yang-tsze.”, in Three Years in Western China, 2nd edition, London: George Philip & Son, →OCLC, →OL, page 165
Origin
- Mandarin四川
- EnglishSsŭ-ch'uan
From Mandarin 四川 (Sìchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Ssŭ⁴-chʻuan¹.
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