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Shiqian
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shǐqián
English
Shiqian County
Etymology
From en cmn 石阡.
Pronunciation
shûʹchyěnʹen 1952 Shihtsien or Shih-ch’ien Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1752 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1752/ 3
en Shi qian
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Tongren p/Guizhou c/China.
en 28 September 2022 Ling Xin ‘Exquisite’ Chinese fish fossils fill gaps in understanding the evolution of jaws in vertebrates w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20220928151130/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3194138/exquisite-chinese-fish-fossils-fill-gaps-understanding-evolution 28 September 2022 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3194138/exquisite-chinese-fish-fossils-fill-gaps-understanding-evolution 1563-9371 648902513 Science https://archive.ph/k6WHP The fish was found in sediment about 439 million years old at a remote site in Shiqian county in Guizhou province in southern China.
Translations
county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 石阡
Mandarin: cmn 石阡
References
en 2-syllable words