Sikang

See also: sikang

English

Alternative forms

• Hsikang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 西康 (Xīkāng).

Proper noun

Sikang

1. A former province of China.
   • 1949, Han-seng Chen, “The Kamba and their Relations with Central China”, in Frontier Land Systems in Southernmost China‎^[1], Institute of Pacific Relations, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 73:

     (1) At about the same time their number was 573,981 in the eastern half of Sikang Province, including nineteen districts east of the Kin-sha River; (2) and 321,945 in the western half.

   • 1972, G. Kenneth Whitehead, “The Deer of Europe and Northern Asia”, in Deer of the world‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 84–85:

     The southern limit of the Roe deer in China seems to be about latitude 30°N but in Sikang and Szechwan provinces it may extend slightly south of this latitude in the Kinsha River area.

   • 2008 [1946], Ellery Queen, “The Adventure of the Needle's Eye”, in Paul D. Staudohar, editor, Murder: Short & Sweet‎^[3] (Fiction), Chicago: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 205:

     Where five channels in the Northwest Passage were known, Ericsson opened a sixth. He found a peak in Sikang Province of western China, in the Amne Machin Range, which was almost a thousand feet higher than Everest, but he lost his instruments and his companions and Mount Everest remained on the books the highest mountain on the planet.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Sikang.

Translations

historical province

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西康 (zh) (Xīkāng)

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Further reading

• “Sikang”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Sikang”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Sikang”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Sikang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• Gaskin, aksing, asking, gaskin, kiangs