Shaanxi

Etymology
From a modified form of the romanization of. The double-a spelling, used certainly to avoid homography with (, of shān rather than shǎn), is not a feature of Hanyu Pinyin and cannot be observed outside reference to Shaanxi (see also:, ). It is likely inherited from the pre-Pinyin system devised and employed by Communist linguists, which was toneless and employed "" for undesirable homographs. The pairs Shaansi and Shansi  appear (for the first time?) in the influential Sin Wenz primer 《中國話寫法拉丁化——理論·原則·方案》 (1935).

An alternative theory is that the double-a spelling is from the romanization system, where the third tone is spelled by doubling a vowel (Shaanshi  vs. Shanshi ), but this is less likely considering the history of  and, including the political and ideological rivalry between the two systems.

Translations

 * Arabic: شَانْشِي
 * Armenian: Շենսի
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 陝西
 * Hokkien: 陝西
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: Šen-si
 * Georgian: შენსი
 * Greek: Σαανσί
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 陝西
 * Korean: ^산시, 섬서
 * Latin: Xensi
 * Latvian: Šaaņsji
 * Lithuanian: Šaansi, Šensi
 * Macedonian: Шенсји
 * Manchu: ᡧᠠᠨᠰᡳ
 * Mongolian:
 * Mongolian script: ᠱᠠᠨᠰᠢ
 * Cyrillic: Шаньши
 * Russian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Zhuang: Sanjsih