From clipping of various words beginning with the syllable /saɪ/.
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A diminutive of the male given name Simon.
A diminutive of the female given name Simone.
A diminutive of the male given name Silas.
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/sɪ/
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciations of Chinese 泗 (Sì), 肆 (Sì), and 姒 (Sì, “a surname, older brother's wife”).
Meanings
A river in Shandong, China.
A county of Suzhou, Anhui, China.
Si county in Anhui province locked down its 760,000 residents and suspended public traffic as it reported 288 cases on Saturday. 2022 July 4, Sophie Yu, Stella Qiu, Ryan Woo, “Eastern China cities tighten COVID curbs as new clusters emerge”, in William Mallard, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2022, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals:
Dong Xuefeng, head of the Huangwei Township Central School in Sixian County, Anhui province, told a school gathering on Monday that Christmas was a disgrace to the Chinese people because of past humiliations inflicted on the nation by mostly Christian invaders. [2018 December 26, Mandy Zuo, “Christmas linked to China’s past humiliation by foreign invaders in speech to primary schoolchildren”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2024, China/People & Culture:
Most of Anhui’s cases were identified in Suzhou’s Si County, where on Wednesday the authorities ordered its 760,000 residents to refrain from going out unless it was necessary. 2022 July 5, Zixu Wang, “Covid Outbreak Emerges in China’s Anhui Province”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2022, The Coronavirus Pandemic:
(historical) Various prefectures of imperial China.