四川
Chinese
four | river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.) | ||
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simp. and trad. (四川) |
四 | 川 | |
Literally: “four mountain passes”. |
Etymology
During the Tang dynasty, the area of what is now Sichuan was administratively divided into three regions based on the main throughfares through the mountains 川道 (“mountain pass (often near a river)”) at the time. During the Song dynasty, these regions were further redivided into four separate regions, giving rise to its modern name.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
(deprecated template usage) 四川
Derived terms
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Descendants
Others:
- → English: Sichuan, Szechuan, Szechwan
- → French: Sichuan, Sétchouan
- → Korean: 쓰촨 (Sseuchwan)
- → Manchu: ᠰᡟᠴᡠᠸᠠᠨ (sycuwan)
- → Portuguese: Sichuan, Setsuan, Szechwan, Sujuão
- → Russian: Сычуа́нь (Syčuánʹ)
- → Spanish: Sichuán
- → Zhuang: Swconh
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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四 | 川 |
し Grade: 1 |
せん Grade: 1 |
on'yomi |
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Derived terms
- 四川語 (Shisengo)
Korean
Hanja in this term | |
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四 | 川 |
Proper noun
Vietnamese
chữ Hán Nôm in this term | |
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四 | 川 |
Proper noun
四川
Categories:
- Chinese lemmas
- Chinese proper nouns
- zh:Sichuan
- zh:Provinces of China
- zh:Places in China
- zh:Four
- Japanese terms spelled with 四 read as し
- Japanese terms spelled with 川 read as せん
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese proper nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji
- ja:Provinces of China
- Korean lemmas
- Korean proper nouns
- Korean proper nouns in Han script
- Korean hanja forms
- Vietnamese lemmas
- Vietnamese proper nouns
- Vietnamese proper nouns in Han script
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