出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2026/08/16 02:50 UTC 版)
c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 山西 (Shānxī, “[Land] West of the [Taihang] Mountains”), in reference to the location of the province's central Fen River valley.
Shanxi
c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 陝西 / 陕西 (Shǎnxī).
Shanxi
Because of homography with Shanxi (山西 (Shānxī)), another province of China, this spelling is not the official spelling.
The official English-language names for the two provinces are:
(1) Shanxi Province (山西 (Shānxī)) with only one 'a' (capital: Taiyuan) and
(2) Shaanxi Province (陝西/陕西 (Shǎnxī)) with two a's (capital: Xi'an).
The Chinese characters used in the names of the two provinces are different (the character 山 (shān) in Shanxi versus the character 陝/陕 (shǎn) in Shaanxi). It is alternatively sometimes written with the diacritical marks, in which case the names of the two provinces are distinguishable.