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Sui en · PROPN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /sweɪ/
  • swā

Etymology

From Mandarin 隋 (Suí).

Meanings

  1. The Sui dynasty of China which ruled from 581 to 618.
  2. A surname of Chinese origin.

Translations (1)

cmn(a Chinese character used in several different contexts)

Source: en.wiktionary, “Sui” (name), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sui en · PROPN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /sweɪ/
  • swā

Etymology

From Mandarin 隨/随 (Suí).

Meanings

  1. A county of Suizhou, Hubei, China.
    • 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. 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:
    • 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). 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:
    • 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). 1968, Wolfram Eberhard, translated by Alide Eberhard, The Local Cultures of South and East China, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →OCLC, →OL, page 220:
    • 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”. 1954, Mao Tse-tung, Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, volume 3, Bombay: People's Publishing House, →OCLC, page 248:
    • 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.” 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 08 Feb 2020:

Translations (1)

cmn 隨 /随 (a county in central China)

Source: en.wiktionary, “Sui” (name), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sui en · ADJ · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /sweɪ/
  • swā

Etymology

From Mandarin 水族 (Shuǐzú) or Sui Suic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to the Sui language or the Sui people.

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Wiktionary’s coverage of Sui terms

Sui en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /sweɪ/
  • swā

Etymology

From Mandarin 水族 (Shuǐzú) or Sui Suic.

Meanings

  1. A member of an ethnic people living primarily in the Guizhou province of China, with around 430,000 people.

Forms

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Sui Number=Plur lexicographic
Suis Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (2)

cmn 水族 (ethnic group) · sjo ᡧᡠᡳᡯᡠ ᡠᡣᠰᡠᠷᠠ (ethnic group)

Source: en.wiktionary, “Sui” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sui en · PROPN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /sweɪ/
  • swā

Etymology

From Mandarin 水族 (Shuǐzú) or Sui Suic.

Meanings

  1. The language of these people, part of the Kra-Dai language family.

Translations (2)

cmn 水族語 /水族语 (language) · cmn 水語 /水语 (language)