Ruisui

English

Alternative forms

• Jui-sui, Juisui (Wade–Giles)
• Rueisuei (Tongyong Pinyin)
• Juihui (Postal Romanization)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 瑞穗 (Ruìsuì).

Proper noun

Ruisui

1. A rural township in Hualien County, Taiwan.
   • 2022 August 29, Christian Shepherd, Pei-Lin Wu, “Their fruit forbidden in China, Taiwan’s pomelo growers feel squeeze”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on September 02, 2022, Asia‎^[2]:

     “For Hualien, about 70 percent [of locally grown pomelos] would usually be sold overseas to mainland China. Now they don’t know what to do with that 70 percent, so most will be auctioned,” he said, referring to the Taiwanese county that includes Ruisui township.

Translations

rural township in eastern Taiwan

• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 瑞穗 (Sūi-sūi, Sūi-hūi), 水尾 (Chúi-bóe, Chúi-bé)

  Mandarin: 瑞穗 (zh) (Ruìsuì)

• Japanese: 瑞穂 (ja) (ずいすい / みずほ)

Further reading

• Ruisui, Juisui at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.