Sichuan

[ sich-wahn, sich-oo-ahn; Chinese sœ-chwahn ]

noun

, Pinyin.

1. a province in southern central China. 219,691 sq. mi. (569,000 sq. km). : Chengdu.

Sichuan

/ ˈsɪtʃwɑːn /

noun

1. a province of SW China: the most populous administrative division in the country, esp in the central Red Basin, where it is crossed by three main tributaries of the Yangtze. Capital: Chengdu. Pop: 81 000 000 (2003 est). Area: about 569 800 sq km (220 000 sq miles)

Example Sentences

A kobuvirus that infected civets in the Huanan market was closely related to a virus detected in animals sold in Sichuan and Guangxi provinces, which are closer to the territory of horseshoe bats and pangolins.

From Los Angeles Times

Some schools in eastern Jiangxi province and south-western Sichuan province postponed the start of the autumn semester, due to begin on 2 September, by a week.

From BBC

Their new home, the newly expanded “Panda Ridge” at the San Diego Zoo, has been designed to reflect the sweeping mountains, canyons and cliffs of China’s Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces.

From Los Angeles Times

“Hong Kong has become much more inclusive for mainlanders,” said Zheng Huiwen, the manager at one of the Hong Kong branches of Tai Er Pickled Fish, a Sichuan fish restaurant from mainland China.

From New York Times

Researchers from the University of Oregon, United States Geological Survey and China's Sichuan University report their findings in a paper published May 27 in Nature Geoscience.

From Science Daily