Liaoxi

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 遼西 / 辽西 (Liáoxī).

Pronunciation

• enPR: lyouʹshēʹ

Proper noun

Liaoxi

1. (historical) A former province in northeast China (from 1949 to 1954), located in what is now part of Liaoning and Jilin provinces, and having the capital Jinzhou.
   • [1954 June 21, “Government Centralization Set for Communist China”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎^[2], Atlantic edition, volume 46, number 174, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 5:

     In northeast China, Liaotung and Liaosi Provinces will be merged into newly reconstituted Liaoning Province.]

   • 1998, Stephen Endicott, Edward Hagerman, “Aches and Fevers in China and Korea”, in The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea‎^[3], Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3:

     Sudden deaths from respiratory anthrax also struck down a railway worker of Manjing train station in Changtu county, Liaoxi province, on 16 March 1952, a young schoolteacher in Liaoyang county on 8 April, and a housewife in Anshan city on 14 April.

Translations

former province

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 遼西 / 辽西 (liu⁴ sai¹)

  Mandarin: 遼西 / 辽西 (zh) (Liáoxī)