西川

Chinese

		west	river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (西川)		西	川
anagram		川西

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Xīchuān

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ ㄔㄨㄢ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Xīchuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ ㄔㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Sichuan
    • Wade–Giles: Hsi¹-chʻuan¹
    • Yale: Syī-chwān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shichuan
    • Palladius: Сичуань (Sičuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

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Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 西川

1. (archaic) an alternate name for Yizhou (an ancient name for the Sichuan basin)

References

• 西川 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh
• Yizhou on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
西	川
にし Grade: 2	かわ Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Proper noun

西(にし)川(かわ) • (Nishikawa) 

1. a surname