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Sui
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Appendix:Variations of "sui"
English
Pronunciation
en /sweɪ/
swācf. en 1952 Suihsien Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1839 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1839/ 3
Etymology 1
From en cmn - 隋 Suí.
Proper noun
The Sui dynasty of China which ruled from 581 to 618.
A surname of Chinese origin.
Translations
a Chinese character used in several different contexts
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 隋 Suí
Etymology 2
+ County, Hubei
From en cmn - 隨 Suí.
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Suizhou p/Hubei c/China.
en 1954 w:Mao Tse-tung w:Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.51699/ Bombay w:People's Publishing House 3 769372525 248 https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.51699/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”.
en 1968 w:Wolfram Eberhard The Local Cultures of South and East China Alide Eberhard https://archive.org/details/localculturesofs0000eber/ Leiden w:E. J. Brill 909840590 4056041M 220 https://archive.org/details/localculturesofs0000eber/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).
en 1978 Y. W. Ma; Joseph S. M. Lau Conrad Lung The Chun-shan Wolf Traditional Chinese Stories https://archive.org/details/traditionalchine0000unse_e8t5/ New York w:Columbia University Press 0-231-04058-X 77-21133 906246177 117 https://archive.org/details/traditionalchine0000unse_e8t5/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.
en 1989 Fritz A. Kuttner Bronze Bells The Archaeology of Music in Ancient China https://archive.org/details/archaeologyofmus0000kutt/ 1st New York w:Paragon House 1990 1-55778-028-5 88-32965 246781325 31 https://archive.org/details/archaeologyofmus0000kutt/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).
en FEBRUARY 7 2020 Don Weinland; Sun Yu; Xinning Liu Chinese villages build barricades to keep coronavirus at bay w:Financial Times https://web.archive.org/web/20200208153120/https://www.ft.com/content/68792b9c-476e-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441 February 8, 2020 https://archive.ph/ask3x 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.”
en
Translations
a county in central China
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 隨 Suí
Etymology 3
From en swi Suic with the tonal mark omitted.
right|thumb|A Sui woman.
Noun
s *
A member of an ethnic people living primarily in the Guizhou province of China, with around 430,000 people.
Translations
ethnic group
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 水族
Xibe: sjo ᡧᡠᡳᡯᡠ ᡠᡣᠰᡠᠷᠠ šuizu uksura
Proper noun
The language of these people, part of the Kra-Dai language family.
Translations
language
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 水語, cmn 水族語
Adjective
-
Pertaining to the Sui language or the Sui people.
See also
Sui Dynasty
Sui people
Sui language
swi
References
Anagrams
en isu IUs SIU Siu UIs isu
en Chinese dynasties