Samsui

English Etymology From en yue - 三水 saam1 seoi2. Proper noun en Sanshui: the Cantonese-derived name. en 2009 Mark R. Frost Yu-Mei Balasingamchow A Woman's World w:Ibrahim Tahir Singapore: A Biography https://archive.org/details/singaporebiograp0000fros/ Singapore Editions Didier Millet Pte Ltd; w:National Museum of Singapore 978-981-4217-62-0 360205405 204 https://archive.org/details/singaporebiograp0000fros/page/204/ It’s believed that between 1934 and 1938 close to 200,000 of these women arrived in Singapore and Malaya. One group that stood out from the throng were those women who hailed from Guangdong’s Samsui county (in Mandarin Sanshui, literally ‘three rivers’). en 2014 Kelvin E.Y. Low Chan Yun Local and Transnational Entanglements Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China https://books.google.com/books?id=Hf4hAwAAQBAJ w:UBC Press 978-0-7748-2575-7 864775060 93 https://books.google.com/books?id=Hf4hAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA93 When we went back, the Samsui county, like government ... [received us] with red carpet ... really big shot [that is, treated as important guests]. Derived terms en Samsui chicken en Samsui woman