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Ssu-ch'uan
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Proper Noun
- 1 Alternative form of Sichuan. alt-of, alternative
"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,[…]"
Etymology
From Mandarin 四川 (Sìchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Ssŭ⁴-chʻuan¹.
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