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Sichuan

[sich-wahn, sich-oo-ahn; Chin. sœ-chwahn]

Si·chuan

[sich-wahn, sich-oo-ahn; Chin. sœ-chwahn]
noun Pinyin.
a province in S central China. 67,960,000; 219,691 sq. mi. (569,000 sq. km). Capital: Chengdu.
Also, Szechwan, Szechuan.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Sichuan, Szechuan or Szechwan (ˈsɪtʃwɑːn)
 
n
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)
 
Szechuan, Szechuan or Szechwan
 
n
 
Szechwan, Szechuan or Szechwan
 
n

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Main Entry:  Sichuan
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  See Szechwan cuisine
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