Ssŭ-ch'uan

From Mandarin 四川 (Sìchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Ssŭ⁴-chʻuan¹.

Ssŭ-ch'uan

1. Alternative form of Sichuan.
   • 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 21:

     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, […]

   • 1895, William Woodville Rockhill, Notes on the Ethnology of Tibet‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 694:

     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.

   • 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^[2], 2nd edition, London: George Philip & Son, →OCLC, →OL, page 165:

     Great 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ssŭ-ch'uan.