英和和英

別の表記

• Szechuan, Szechwan
• Ssu-ch'uan, Ssŭ-ch'uan (Wade–Giles)
• Szechuen, Suchuen, Soutchuen, Szu-tchuan, Siciuen, Sz'-chuen (obsolete)

語源

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 四川 (Sìchuān), a contraction of the Southern Song 四川路 (Sìchuān lù).

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɪt͡ʃ.wɑn/, /ˌsɪˈt͡ʃwɑn/, /ˌsəˈt͡ʃwɑn/, /ˌsiˈt͡ʃwɑn/
• (hyperforeign) IPA: /ˈsɛʃ.wɑn/, /ˈsɛt͡ʃ.wɑn/
• enPR: sě′chwän, sœ′chwän′, sě′chwän′, sŭ′chwän′
• ハイフネーション: Si‧chuan

固有名詞

Sichuan

1. A province in central China. Capital: Chengdu.
   • [1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 242:

     In Suchue, on Mount Tiexe, the ſtones that grow there being burnt in the fire, drop Iron, which is very fit for the making Swords.]

   • [1671, Arnoldus Montanus, translated by John Ogilby, Atlas Chinensis‎, London: Tho. Johnson, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 512:

     SUchuen, which ſignifies Four Waters, is a great Countrey, ſeparated by the River Kiang, into a Northern and Southern part ; Bordering in the Eaſt upon Huquang ; in the South-Eaſt upon Queicheu ; and hath in the North-Eaſt and North Xenſi ; in the North-Weſt, the People Koningguangi and Kiang ; or the Countreys which Paulus Venetus makes to be Preſter John's, which the Chineſes by one general Name call'd Sifan ; and in the Weſt, Tibet, and the moſt Southern part of the Province of Junnan.]

   • 1978, Angus W. McDonald, Jr., “Power”, in The Urban Origins of Rural Revolution: Elites and the Masses in Hunan Province, China, 1911-1927‎, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 50-51:

     Such was the argument of three highly placed gentlemen of Hubei, graduates of the Japanese military academy and losers in Hubei’s internal conflicts who appeared in Changsha in early 1921. It was also the argument of Xiong Ke-wu, a former military governor of Sichuan whose June visit was concealed behind layers of lies and half truths (he said he was in Changsha to study self-government; gossips in the know said that he was secretly a spokesman for Wang Zhan-yuan).

   • 2018 December 12, Beijing Monitoring Desk, “China reports new African swine fever outbreaks in Sichuan, Qinghai provinces”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 12 December 2018, Health News‎:

     China’s agriculture ministry said on Wednesday two new African swine fever outbreaks were confirmed in Sichuan and Qinghai provinces.
     The new case in the city of Bazhong in Sichuan killed 19 of 117 pigs present on a farm, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement on its website.

   • 2019 May 27, “Rare albino panda discovered in China”, in DW News‎, archived from the original on 27 May 2019, News‎:

     About 80 percent of wild giant pandas live in Sichuan province. The rest are in Gansu and Shaanxi.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Sichuan.

派生語

• Sichuanese
• Sichuan lovage (Ligustrum sinense)
• Sichuan pepper (Zanthoxylum spp.)

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