hsien
nounEtymology From Mandarin 縣 /县 (xiàn), Wade–Giles romanization: hsien⁴.
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Taiwan An administrative subdivision of Taiwan, commonly translated as county. (Alternative form of xian for mainland China.)
- In the hsien, there shall be a hsien government with a hsien magistrate who shall be elected by the people of the hsien.
- The fruit is largely eaten, the best coming from Yü-chau hien in Honan, and from Han-yang fu and T'ung-shan hien in Hupeh.[1871, Frederick Porter Smith, Contributions Towards the Materia Medica & Natural History, →OCLC, page 176:
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- General Li Shu-ch’eng was born at Ch’ien-chiang Hsien, Hupei province, in 1873 and was a salaried licentiate or Linsheng in the Ching Dynasty.1924 August 2, “Who's Who in China”, in The China Weekly Review, volume XXIX, number 9, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 316, column 2:
- Tea certificates were issued by the magistrates of the following localities: Ch'ien-shan and sixteen other hsien in Anhui; Shan-hua and sixteen other hsien in Hunan. In Hupeh, certificates were issued by the magistrate of Chien-shih to tea merchants. In Hsien-ning and six other chou and hsien, tea planters also received certificates to sell tea (Hu-pu tse-li, 32:4-5).1962, T’ung-tsu Ch’ü, Local Government in China under the Ch'ing, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 299:
- (2) Huaipin hsien is restored; its present administrative area is the administrative area of the former Huaipin hsien incorporated into Hsi hsien and the two administrative areas of Ch'issu and Changchuang ch'u of the former Huaipin hsien incorporated into Kushih hsien.1963, Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 2889–2909, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
- A native of Chihsi hsien, Anhwei, Hu Shih was born in Shanghai.1968, “Hu Shih”, in Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, volume II, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 167:
- Derived terms
- P'i Hsien