Sutsien
English
Etymology
The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 宿遷／宿迁 (Sùqiān).
Proper noun
Sutsien
- Alternative form of Suqian
- 1949, Frank A. Brown, The Last Hundred Days, Shanghai: Board of Missions, Presbyterian Church in the United States, OCLC 24084761, page 11:
- In the Sutsien country field three Christian leaders and three children have been killed by shells and bombs.
- 1970, Arthur Waley, Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, LCCN 70-107646, OCLC 491178461, page 128:
- On 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.
- 1971, Pollock, John, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, published 2010, →ISBN, OCLC 827654232, page 46:
- At Sutsien six bandits had been executed a few days before.
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Anagrams
- intuses