Sinuiju
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 신의주 (新義州, Sinuiju).
Pronunciation
- enPR: sēnʹo͝oʹēʹjo͞oʹ[1]
Proper noun
Sinuiju
- A city in North Korea.
- 1956, Truman, Harry S., chapter 24, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope, volume II, Doubleday & Company, OCLC 1036705143, page 374:
- MacArthur had ordered a bombing mission to take out the bridge across the Yalu River from Sinuiju (Korea) to Antung (Manchuria).
- 1984, Edwin P. Hoyt, “To the Yalu”, in On to the Yalu, New York: Stein and Day, →ISBN, LCCN 84-40240, OCLC 777011015, OL 2866764M, page 247:
- 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.
- 2018 July 1, “Kim Jong-un highlights China ties with second border visit”, in EFE, archived from the original on 01 July 2018:
- Kim 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Sinuiju.
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Translations
city in North Korea
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References
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Sinuiju”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, page 1774, column 3