Submitted Name
Type Political Subdivision
Usage Chinese, Afrikaans, Armenian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Indian, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Urdu, Uzbek
Scripts 四川(Chinese) Սիչուան(Armenian) सिचुआन(Hindi) سیچوآن(Persian) Сичуан(Tajik, Uzbek Cyrillic) سیچوان(Urdu)
Pronounced Pron. SUZ-CHWAN(Chinese) see-choo-AHN(Armenian) SICH-wahn(English) SESH-wahn(English) SECH-wahn(English) SEE-CHWAN(French) si-chuw-AHN(Hindi) [key·IPA]
Other Forms FormsSychuan (Kazakh, Mongolian)
Meaning & History
Means "four rivers" in Chinese, from 四 (sì) meaning "four" and 川 (chuān) meaning "river, stream". This is the name of a Chinese province.