理縣

Chinese

		to manage; to heed; to put in order to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure	a district; county
trad. (理縣)		理	縣
simp. (理县)		理	县

Etymology

Renamed from 理番縣 (Lǐfān Xiàn) in 1946 as 理番 (literally “to manage the barbarians”) was deemed pejorative towards ethnic minorities.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Lǐxiàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˇ ㄒㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁵ jyun⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Lǐxiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˇ ㄒㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Lǐsiàn
    • Wade–Giles: Li³-hsien⁴
    • Yale: Lǐ-syàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Liishiann
    • Palladius: Лисянь (Lisjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lei⁵ jyun⁶
    • Yale: léih yuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁵ jyn⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: léi⁵ yun⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lei̯¹³ jyːn²²/

Proper noun

理縣

1. Li County, Lixian (a county of Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan, China)