Sui
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Sui
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Etymology 2
Proper noun
Sui
- A county of Suizhou, Hubei, China.
- 1954, Mao Tse-tung, Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, volume 3, Bombay: People's Publishing House, →OCLC, page 248:
- At P’inglin (north-east of the present Sui county, Hupeh), more than one thousand people rose under Ch’en Mu, calling themselves the “P’inglin Army”.
- 1968, Wolfram Eberhard, translated by Alide Eberhard, The Local Cultures of South and East China, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →OCLC, →OL, page 220:
- Shen-nung’s geographical origin has been controversial. According to a peasant tradition he was born in a village at the northern border of the county of Sui in Hupei and has been worshipped there (Ching-chou-chi in T’P’YL 189, 6b).
- 1978, “The Chun-shan Wolf”, in Conrad Lung, transl., edited by Y. W. Ma and Joseph S. M. Lau, Traditional Chinese Stories, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117:
- In the past, Mao Pao was ferried across the river [in time of danger] because earlier he had set free a tortoise,⁵ and the marquis of Sui received a pearl because he had saved a snake.⁶
[...]⁶ Sui was a principality (in Sui County in modern Hupeh Province) in the Warring States period. The marquis of Sui once saved a wounded snake. In return, the snake searched for a large pearl in the river and gave it to the marquis.
- 1989, Fritz A. Kuttner, “Bronze Bells”, in The Archaeology of Music in Ancient China, 1st edition, New York: Paragon House, published 1990, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31:
- By 1985, a volume of the famous scholar Jao Tsung-I/Rao Zongyi (together with Tseng Hsien-tung/Zeng Xiantong) appeared under the title “Studies on the Inscriptions of the Bells and Chimes From the Tomb of Marquis Yi of the Tseng State at Sui-Hsien” (Province of Ho-pei/Hebei, county of Sui).
- 2020 February 7, Don Weinland, Sun Yu, Xinning Liu, “Chinese villages build barricades to keep coronavirus at bay”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on February 8, 2020:
- Mr Zeng returned to Sui county, about 200km north of Wuhan, on January 21 to celebrate the Chinese new year with his parents.[...]“If the disease drags on for two months, the start-up I work for will go under and I’ll lose my job,” he said. “There is nothing I can do about this except hope the epidemic will end soon. I am ready to spend a few months in Sui County.”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Sui.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Mandarin 水族 (Shuǐzú) or Sui Suic.
Noun
- A member of an ethnic people living primarily in the Guizhou province of China, with around 430,000 people.
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Proper noun
Sui
- The language of these people, part of the Kra-Dai language family.
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Adjective
Sui (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the Sui language or the Sui people.
See also
Sui Dynasty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Sui people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Sui language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Wiktionary's coverage of Sui terms
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