Meanings
- A city in North Pyongan Province, North Korea, across the Yalu River from Dandong, Liaoning, China.
MacArthur had ordered a bombing mission to take out the bridge across the Yalu River from Sinuiju (Korea) to Antung (Manchuria).
1956, Harry S. Truman, chapter 24, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope, volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 3743 more examples
By this time, Kim II Sung already had the assurances of the Chinese that they would not allow his government to fall without a fight. So he retreated to Sinuiju, on the Korean side of the Yalu, just across from the Manchurian industrial center of Antung, and shouted curses over the radio waves at the United Nations, President Syngman Rhee, and the United States.
1984, Edwin P. Hoyt, “To the Yalu”, in On to the Yalu, New York: Stein and Day, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 247At peak times, up to 200 trucks a day cross the Yalu River to Sinuiju, North Korea. Before departing, only about 5 percent of the containers they carry are inspected, the official said.
2016 March 31, Jane Perlez, Yufan Huang, “A Hole in North Korean Sanctions Big Enough for Coal, Oil and Used Pianos”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2016, ASIA PACIFIC, page A4Kim Jong-un visited a cosmetics factory situated in Sinuiju, capital of the North Pyongan province, situated on the south bank of the Yalu River, which marks the border between the two countries.
2018 July 1, “Kim Jong-un highlights China ties with second border visit”, in EFE, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2018Synonyms: Xinyizhou
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA city in North Pyongan Province, North Korea, across the Yalu River from Dandong, Liaoning, China.
Origin
- Korean신의주(新義州)
- EnglishSinuiju
Borrowed from Korean 신의주(新義州) (sinuiju).
More words from Korean
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 新義州 /新义州
- 新義州 /新义州 (san¹ ji⁶ zau¹)city in North Korea
Chinese Mandarin 新義州 /新义州
- 新義州 /新义州 (Xīnyìzhōu)city in North Korea
Japanese 新義州
- 新義州 (Shiniju)city in North Korea
Korean 신의주
- 신의주 (Sinuiju)city in North Korea
Cite this entry
Sinuiju. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sinuiju
“Sinuiju.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sinuiju. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Sinuiju,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sinuiju.
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