Etymology

Suchou

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Today it means: A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, China, between Lake Tai and the Yangtze River. Full definition →

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The story

A variant of Su-chou, the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of various Chinese placenames now written Suzhou, q.v.

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