Suide

Sui·de
S1U1I1D2E1

proper noun

A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.

Scrabble 6

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Sui-te

  1. A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.

    During this debacle, Wei was probably out of harm’s way to the north of the city in Sui-chou, the modern Sui-te county, Shensi ("Composed in Sui-chou”).

    [1988, Robin D. S. Yates, “The Life and Times of Wei Chuang”, in Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910), Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 29
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    Comrade Huo Wei-te, vice chairman of the Shantung provincial committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, died of illness on 14 June 1977 in Tsinan at the age of 76 despite medical treatment. Comrade Huo Wei-te was from a poor peasant family of (Leichiakuang) village of the (Chunghsiao) commune in Suite County, Shensi Province.

    [1977 June 22 [1977 June 21], “Shantung First Secretary Presides Over Memorial Service”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 120, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Tsinan Shantung Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page G 9

    “My family is from Suide in Shaanxi Province. I was born in 1989,” wrote a user who identified as Yu Jian, or “Meet,” on the matchmaking website www.ru-zhui.com.

    2016 November 11, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Chinese Women Rarely Take Husbands’ Names, but Don’t Credit Feminism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2016, ASIA PACIFIC

Origin

  1. Mandarin綏德 /绥德
  2. EnglishSuide

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 綏德 /绥德 (Suídé).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 綏德 /绥德
  • 綏德 /绥德 (seoi¹ dak¹)county
Chinese Mandarin 綏德 /绥德
  • 綏德 /绥德 (Suídé)county
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