sui

plural suis

1. InternetabbreviationclippingcountableuncountableClipping of suicide.

present singular third person suis · participle present suiing · participle past suied · past suied

1. To commit a suicide attack.

   I just suied one of the other team.

1. abbreviationinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of stress urinary incontinence.

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

1. A county of Suizhou, Hubei, China.

   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

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   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

   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

   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

plural Suis

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

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

1. not comparablePertaining to the Sui language or the Sui people.