Tsin

Tsin

1. (obsolete, historical) Alternative form of Qin: the Chinese region, state, dynasty, era, and empire.
   • 1739 [1735], P. Du Halde, “Geographical Obſervations on the Kingdom of Corea”, in The General History Of China‎, 2nd edition, volume IV, →OCLC, page 388:

     [...]Nothing but War was to be ſeen among ſo many different States, and their mutual Invaſions reduced the Empire into ſeven great Kingdoms, which were called Tſin, Tſou, Yen, Tchao, Han, Iſi, Ouei: The Kingdom of Yen, which at that time comprehended no more than the preſent Province of Petche li, made itſelf very ſoon Maſter of the Province of Leao tong, and by puſhing on its Conqueſts by degrees towards the Eaſt, Corea was at laſt brought under the Authority and wife Government of Tchen pen: This Kingdom for a long time withſtood the ambitious Attempts of the King of Tſin, called Tſin vang, but at laſt it fell under his Power as the other ſix had done: Hi vang, King of Yen and of Corea, was defeated, taken and killed in the Year 259 before the Birth of Chriſt, according to the Chineſe Hiſtory, and Tſin vang was acknowledged for Emperor of all China by the Name of Tſin chi hoang ti.

   • 1878, Thomas Rawson Birks translating Franz Delitzsch's citation of Neumann in his Commentary on the Book of Isaiah, p. 247:

     The name Θῖναι, Strabo, Σῖναι, Ptol., Τζίνιτζα, Kosmas, did not obtain currency first from the founder of the dynasty Tsin; but, long before this, Tsin was the name of a feudal kingdom in Shensi, one of the western provinces of the Sinese land, and Feitsa, the first feudal King of Tsin, began to reign as early as b.c. 897.

   • [1908, Edward Harper Parker, Ancient China Simplified‎, London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., →OCLC, page ix, xi:

     In the earlier chapters uncouth proper names are reduced to a minimum, but the Index refers by name to specific places and persons only generally mentioned in the earlier pages. For instance, the states of Lu and Chêng on pages 22 and 29 : it is hard enough to differentiate Ts‘i, Tsin, Ts‘in, and Ts‘u at the outstart, without crowding the memory with fresh names until the necessity for it absolutely arises. […]
     CHOU: at first a principality in South Shen Si and part of Kan Suh, subject to Shang dynasty; afterwards the imperial dynasty itself.
     TS‘IN; principality west of the above. When the Chou dynasty moved its capital east into Ho Nan, Ts‘in took possession of the old Chou principality.
     TSIN : principality (same family as Chou) in South Shan Si (and in part of Shen Si at times).
     TS‘I: principality, separated by the Yellow River from Tsin and Yen; it lay in North Shan Tung, and in the coast part of Chih Li.
     TS‘U : semi-barbarous principality alone preponderant on the Yang-tsz River.]

   • 1966 March, Rewi Alley, “Ancient Sites around Houma in Southern Shansi”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume V, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43, column 1:

     The tombs have been excavated from original sites out in the countryside, and brought into Houma city, now the administrative centre of Chuwo county. Around Chuwo was possibly once a very early Tsin capital.

• Inst., NIST, NTIS, TINs, inst, inst., ints, isn't, nits, snit, tins