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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Chih hsien

· Chih· hsien · IPA
01 An official having charge of a hsien, or administrative district, in China; a district magistrate, responsible for good order in his hsien …
  1. 1.
    An official having charge of a hsien, or administrative district, in China; a district magistrate, responsible for good order in his hsien (which see), and having jurisdiction in its civil and criminal cases.