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English
Etymology
From the Postal Romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 宿遷／宿迁 (Sùqiān).
Proper noun
Sutsien
- Alternative form of Suqian
1970, Arthur Waley, Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, published 2010, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 46:At Sutsien six bandits had been executed a few days before.
References
- ^ Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese)., Second edition, Shanghai: Far Eastern Geographical Establishment, 1915 March, →OCLC, page 82: “The romanisation adopted is […] that used by the Chinese Post Office. […] Sutsien 宿遷縣 Kiangsu 江蘇 33.59N 118.32E”
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