Liaoxi

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • enPR: lyouʹshēʹ[1]

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, 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.]

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References
  1. Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Liaosi or Liao-hsi”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1049, column 1
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