西川

Chinese

		west	river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (西川)		西	川
anagram		川西

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Xīchuān

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄔㄨㄢ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Xīchuān
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄔㄨㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Sichuan
  - Wade–Giles: Hsi¹-chʻuan¹
  - Yale: Syī-chwān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shichuan
  - Palladius: Сичуань (Sičuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    熙川
    西川

Proper noun

西川

(archaic) an alternate name for Yizhou (an ancient name for the Sichuan basin)

References

西川 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh
Yizhou on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Japanese

Kanji in this term
西	川
にし Grade: 2	かわ Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Proper noun

西(にし)川(かわ) • (Nishikawa)

a surname

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