Ssu-ch'uan

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 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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