Sui-ning

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See also: Suining and Suíníng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 遂寧遂宁 (Suìníng) Wade–Giles romanization: Sui⁴-ning².

Proper noun

Sui-ning

  1. Alternative form of Suining
    • 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, 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, James M. Scott, Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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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