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  • short name for Sichuan 四川[Si4 chuan1] province
  • one of the Three Kingdoms 三國|三国[San1 guo2] after the Han dynasty, also called 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4], situated around what is now Sichuan province
  • hollyhock (Alcea rosea)
Trad. 蜀錦
  • brocade from Sichuan
Trad. 樂蜀
  • Luxor, city in Egypt (Cantonese transliteration)
  • Sichuan
  • originally two provinces of Qin and Han
Trad. 蜀國
  • Sichuan
  • the state of Shu in Sichuan at different periods
  • the Shu Han dynasty (214-263) of Liu Bei 劉備|刘备 during the Three Kingdoms
  • see 蜀山區|蜀山区[Shu3 shan1 Qu1]
Trad. 蜀漢
  • Shu Han (c. 200-263), Liu Bei's kingdom in Sichuan during the Three Kingdoms, claiming legitimacy as successor of Han
  • the Prime Minister of Shu (i.e. Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮[Zhu1 ge3 Liang4])
Trad. 蜀繡
  • Sichuan embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 蘇繡|苏绣[Su1 xiu4], 湘繡|湘绣[Xiang1 xiu4] and 粵繡|粤绣[Yue4 xiu4])
Trad. 藥蜀葵
  • marsh mallow (Althaea officinalis)
Trad. 蜀山區
  • Shushan, a district of Hefei City 合肥市[He2 fei2 Shi4], Anhui
Trad. 樂不思蜀
  • indulge in pleasure and forget home and duty (idiom)
Trad. 得隴望蜀
  • lit. covet Sichuan once Gansu has been seized
  • fig. endless greed
  • insatiable desire
  • lit. Sichuan dogs bark at the sun (idiom); fig. a simpleton will marvel at even the most common things
  • alludes to the Sichuan foggy weather where it's uncommon to see a sunny day
Trad. 秦嶺蜀棧道
  • the Qinling plank road to Shu, a historical mountain road from Shaanxi to Sichuan

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