Sanyi

See also: sànyì, sǎnyì, and Sānyì

English

Etymology

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 三義 (Sānyì).

Proper noun

Sanyi

1. A rural township in Miaoli County, Taiwan.
   • 1981 August 24, “Around the World; One Body Still Missing In Taiwan Air Disaster”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-24, Section A, page 5‎^[2]:

     The airliner was flying at 22,000 feet, bound for the southern port of Kaohiung, when it exploded and crashed near the small town of Sanyi, 94 miles southwest of Taipei.

   • 1981 August 30, “Gov't. to find causes of air disaster”, in Free China Weekly‎^[3], volume XXII, number 34, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 3:

     Two Boeing experts, Thurman Jones, air accident investigation coordinator and K.H. Hommel, a structural engineer, also arrived at the site of the accident between Yuanli, Tunglo and Shuanhu Villages near Sanyi township in Miaoli county, central Taiwan.

   • 2011 July 27, Helen Massy-Beresford, Chang-Ran Kim, Gilles Guillaume, “Peugeot, Nissan smarting after Japan quake”, in Will Waterman, Chris Wickham, editors, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 2023-08-13, QUARTERLY EARNINGS:

     A worker checks a vehicle for radiation at a Nissan warehouse in Sanyi, Miaoli March 31, 2011.

   • 2022 May 20, Micah McCartney, “Earthfest returning to Taiwan in July”, in Taiwan News‎^[5], archived from the original on 20 May 2022, Sports & Entertainment‎^[6]:

     The festival will take place at a campground about 23 kilometers south of Miaoli City in Sanyi Township. Campers can either bring their own tent or rent one for NT$1,300 per night. Cabins are available for rent as well.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Sanyi.

Translations

rural township

• Chinese:

  Hokkien: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 三義／三义 (zh) (Sānyì)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Sanyi at Google Ngram Viewer

Hungarian

Etymology

Clipping and -i diminutive of Sándor (changing -án- to -any-). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃɒɲi]
• Hyphenation: Sa‧nyi

Proper noun

Sanyi

1. a diminutive of the male given name Sándor

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Sanyi	Sanyik
accusative	Sanyit	Sanyikat
dative	Sanyinak	Sanyiknak
instrumental	Sanyival	Sanyikkal
causal-final	Sanyiért	Sanyikért
translative	Sanyivá	Sanyikká
terminative	Sanyiig	Sanyikig
essive-formal	Sanyiként	Sanyikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Sanyiban	Sanyikban
superessive	Sanyin	Sanyikon
adessive	Sanyinál	Sanyiknál
illative	Sanyiba	Sanyikba
sublative	Sanyira	Sanyikra
allative	Sanyihoz	Sanyikhoz
elative	Sanyiból	Sanyikból
delative	Sanyiról	Sanyikról
ablative	Sanyitól	Sanyiktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	Sanyié	Sanyiké
non-attributive possessive - plural	Sanyiéi	Sanyikéi

Possessive forms of Sanyi
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Sanyim	Sanyijaim
2nd person sing.	Sanyid	Sanyijaid
3rd person sing.	Sanyija	Sanyijai
1st person plural	Sanyink	Sanyijaink
2nd person plural	Sanyitok	Sanyijaitok
3rd person plural	Sanyijuk	Sanyijaik