Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Suining.
The men rushed by the fastest means possible to the nearest airfield, at Sui-ning, arriving there three days later.
2015, James M. Scott, Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1681 more example
Wang Shao’s Manual of White Sugar (T’ang-shuang p’u), written in the twelfth century, describes how in his native prefecture of Sui-ning in Szechwan as many as forty per cent of the peasants in some areas might be engaged in growing cane.
1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91
Origin
- Mandarin遂寧 /遂宁
- EnglishSui-ning
From Mandarin 遂寧 /遂宁 (Suìníng) Wade–Giles romanization: Sui⁴-ning².
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Sui-ning. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sui-ning
“Sui-ning.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sui-ning. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Sui-ning,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sui-ning.
Source: Sui-ning on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.