Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Suqian.
At Sutsien six bandits had been executed a few days before.
1971, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, published 2010, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 462 more examples
In the Sutsien country field three Christian leaders and three children have been killed by shells and bombs.
1949, Frank A. Brown, The Last Hundred Days, Shanghai: Board of Missions, Presbyterian Church in the United States, →OCLC, page 11On the boat he noticed that Wang sniffed at things to eat and drink, but never swallowed them, and that if he sniffed at anything hot, it at once became icy- cold. When they got to Sutsien, the ghost said, ‘They are giving a play in that village over there. Let’s go and look on’. When they had watched several episodes, the ghost suddenly disappeared.
1970, Arthur Waley, Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128
Origin
From the Postal Romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 宿遷／宿迁 (Sùqiān).
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