Sui-ning
See also: Suining and Suíníng
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 遂寧/遂宁 (Suìníng) Wade–Giles romanization: Sui⁴-ning².
Proper noun
Sui-ning
- Alternative form of Suining
- 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, Mark Elvin, transl., Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, OCLC 1181343913, OL 4197231M, page 91:
- 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.
- 2015, Scott, James M., Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, LCCN 2014043257, OCLC 1290258280, page 168:
- The men rushed by the fastest means possible to the nearest airfield, at Sui-ning, arriving there three days later.
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Translations
Suining — see Suining