Shaanxi

Shanxi English Alternative forms en Shanhsi Wade-Giles en Shensi Shense Shensy Postal Romanization en Shen-hsi, en Shenhsi en Xensi, en Xienxi, en Sciensii, en Chensi obsolete en Shanxi Hanyu Pinyin proscribed en Shaangxi, en Sha'anxi, en Shenxi misspelling Etymology From a modified form of the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of en zh 陝西 West of the Shan [Pass]. The double-a spelling, used certainly to avoid homography with en Shanxi (zh 山西 -, of shān rather than shǎn), is not a feature of Hanyu Pinyin and cannot be observed outside reference to Shaanxi (see also: en Ningshaan, en Shaanbei, en Shaan-Gan-Ning, en Shaanzhong). It is likely inherited from the pre-Pinyin Latinxua Sin Wenz system devised and employed by Communist linguists, which was toneless and employed "Sin Wenz#Irregular spellings irregular spellings" for undesirable homographs. The pairs Shaansi (zh 陝西 -) and Shansi (zh 山西 -) appear (for the first time?) in the influential Sin Wenz primer zh 《中國話寫法拉丁化——理論·原則·方案》 (1935). An alternative theory is that the double-a spelling is from the Gwoyeu Romatzyh romanization system, where the third tone is spelled by doubling a vowel (Shaanshi zh 陝西 - vs. Shanshi zh 山西 -), but this is less likely considering the history of Gwoyeu Romatzyh and Sin Wenz, including the political and ideological rivalry between the two systems. Pronunciation en /ʃɑːnˈʃiː/ /ˈʃænˈʃiː/, shänʹshēʹen 1952 Shensi Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1750 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1750/ 1 en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Shaanxi.wav Southern England en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Shaanxi2.wav Southern England en iː 2 en Shanxi en Shaan xi Proper noun en Q47974en province c/China including the Wei River valley and the fertile southern half of the Ordos Loop, comprising much of the Loess Plateau Xi'an a <<province>> of <<c/China>>. en 1856 Thomas Taylor Meadows The Chinese and their Rebellions https://archive.org/details/chinesetheirrebe00mead/ London w:Smith, Elder & Co. 318266730 176 https://archive.org/details/chinesetheirrebe00mead/page/176/ The fact, therefore, that the Tae pings, when they raised the siege of Hwae king on the 1st September marched westwards by it into Shan se, shows that the Imperial forces were strong enough to prevent their descent by the Wei river. on March 5, 1979 w:Jay Mathews China Is China, But Hangchow Is Hangzhou https://web.archive.org/web/20231229120226/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/03/05/china-is-china-but-hangchow-is-hangzhou/0fdd559d-7499-4cec-8e8e-6036f5b50640/ 29 December 2023 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/03/05/china-is-china-but-hangchow-is-hangzhou/0fdd559d-7499-4cec-8e8e-6036f5b50640/ Under the Pinyin system, two neighboring provinces of northern China are both spelled "Shanxi". In this special case, one of the provinces is now spelled "Shaanxi", to indicate a different tone in the first syllable. en 1979 July 2,000-year-old Paper Eastern Horizon https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1979-07_18_7/ XVIII 7 Hong Kong Eastern Horizon Press 0012-8813 751117974 51 https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1979-07_18_7/page/51/ Three pieces of paper which may date back to between 73 and 49 BC were recently found in Fufeng county, Shaanxi province. en 1979 August Lan Cao Tomb of the Yellow Emperor w:China Reconstructs https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1979-08/ w:China Welfare Institute XXVIII 8 0009-4447 1554324 64 https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1979-08/page/n65/ 1 HUANG DI, the legendary Yellow Emperor to whom is attributed the founding of the Chinese nation about 2000 B.C., is said to have been buried on the loess plateau. There is a tomb in Shaanxi province’s Huangling county which has long been honored as his. en https://archive.org/details/proceedingsoflin107linn/ 1984 The Phylogenetic Position of the Eugaleaspida in China Pan Jiang (P'an Kiang) w:Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 107 311 0370-047X 1755950 https://archive.org/details/proceedingsoflin107linn/page/311/ Relevant new discoveries in China, not yet described, include polybranchiaspids and hanyangaspids which were recently (1981-82) recovered from an Early Silurian formation in western Hunan Province of south China, and in southern Shaanxi Province, west China. June 16, 1986 CHINESE TOMB FOUND TO BE VICTIM OF GRAVE ROBBERS https://web.archive.org/web/20150524191311/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/16/us/chinese-tomb-found-to-be-victim-of-grave-robbers.html 24 May 2015 B 10 "Archeologists drew almost a complete blank in their search of the inner tomb," the official New China News Agency said Saturday in a report of excavations at the tomb site, thought to be between 2,200 and 2,800 years old. The site is in Fengxiang County of Shaanxi Province, about 90 miles west of the ancient Yellow River capital of Xian. en 13 January 2019 21 die in China coal mine collapse https://web.archive.org/web/20190113115506/https://www.efe.com/efe/english/world/21-die-in-china-coal-mine-collapse/50000262-3865363 13 Jan 2019 w:EFE Twenty one people were killed in China after the roof of a coal mine collapsed in Lijiagou, in the central province Shaanxi, state media reported on Sunday. en 01/19/2022 Chinese couple trapped on lockdown date get engaged w:France 24 https://web.archive.org/web/20220119050716/https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220119-chinese-couple-trapped-on-lockdown-date-get-engaged 19 January 2022 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220119-chinese-couple-trapped-on-lockdown-date-get-engaged Live news Zhao Xiaoqing, a 28-year-old woman from northern China's Shaanxi province, thought her date in mid-December with a young man living in a different city would be a one-day affair where she would also get to know his family. en Translations province of northwest China Arabic: ar شَانْشِي m Armenian: hy Շենսի Chinese: Cantonese: yue 陝西 sim2 sai1 Hokkien: nan-hbl 陝西 Siám-sai Mandarin: cmn 陝西 Shǎnxī Czech: cs Šen-si Esperanto: eo Ŝenŝjio Georgian: ka შენსი Greek: el Σαανσί Hindi: hi शान्शी Hungarian: hu Senhszi Indonesian: id Shaanxi Japanese: ja 陝西 せんせい, Sensei Korean: ko ^산시, ko ^섬서(陝西) Latin: la Xensi Latvian: lv Šaaņsji Lithuanian: lt Šaansi, lt Šensi Macedonian: mk Шенсји Manchu: mnc ᡧᠠᠨᠰᡳ, mnc ᡧᠠᠨ ᠰᡳ Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Шаньши Mongolian script: mn ᠱᠠᠨᠰᠢ Polish: pl Shaanxi n Russian: ru Шэньси́ f indeclinable Urdu: ur شانسی śānsī Vietnamese: vi Thiểm Tây Zhuang: za Sanjsih See also Shanxi References Further reading Shaanxi, Shensi, Xensi, Sha'anxi pn Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo fen sheng dituji (Hanyu Pinyin ban) (Atlas of the People's Republic of China (Hanyu Pinyin edition)