Hsian

From Mandarin 西安 (Xī'ān), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-an¹.[1]

Hsian

1. Alternative form of Xi'an
   • 1967, Coberly, Zoral; Elga Coberly, Dragon Teeth‎, Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, LCCN 67-19719, OCLC 2019700, page 45:

     We arrived in Lingpao, at that time the end of the railroad, early enough in the afternoon to get a room for the night in a hotel and to make arrangement for a truck to take us to Hsian, the capital of Shensi Province, the next day.

   • 1972, Warner, Marina, “A Typhoon in the Apple Tree”, in The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908‎, →ISBN, LCCN 86-7909, page 210:

     So the Sacred Chariot wheeled south, to pass through the mountains of Shansi to the inland province of Shensi, where the great ancient capital of the T’ang dynasty, Hsian, would make a princely refuge.

• “Hsian, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• Anish, Ishan, Naish, Nashi, Sahin, Sahni, Shain, Shani, Shina, Sinha, hains, nashi