Sinuiju

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 신의주(新義州) (sinuiju).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sēnʹo͝oʹēʹjo͞oʹ
• enPR: shǐnʹē-jo͞oʹ

Proper noun

Sinuiju

1. A city in North Pyongan Province, North Korea, across the Yalu River from Dandong, Liaoning, China.
   • 1956, Harry S. Truman, chapter 24, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope‎^[3], volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 374:

     MacArthur had ordered a bombing mission to take out the bridge across the Yalu River from Sinuiju (Korea) to Antung (Manchuria).

   • 1984, Edwin P. Hoyt, “To the Yalu”, in On to the Yalu‎^[4], New York: Stein and Day, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 247:

     By this time, Kim II Sung already had the assurances of the Chinese that they would not allow his government to fall without a fight. So he retreated to Sinuiju, on the Korean side of the Yalu, just across from the Manchurian industrial center of Antung, and shouted curses over the radio waves at the United Nations, President Syngman Rhee, and the United States.

   • 2016 March 31, Jane Perlez, Yufan Huang, “A Hole in North Korean Sanctions Big Enough for Coal, Oil and Used Pianos”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-01, ASIA PACIFIC, page A4‎^[6]:

     At peak times, up to 200 trucks a day cross the Yalu River to Sinuiju, North Korea. Before departing, only about 5 percent of the containers they carry are inspected, the official said.

   • 2018 July 1, “Kim Jong-un highlights China ties with second border visit”, in EFE‎^[7], archived from the original on 01 July 2018:

     Kim Jong-un visited a cosmetics factory situated in Sinuiju, capital of the North Pyongan province, situated on the south bank of the Yalu River, which marks the border between the two countries.

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

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Xinyizhou

Translations

city in North Korea

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 新義州／新义州 (san¹ ji⁶ zau¹)

  Mandarin: 新義州／新义州 (zh) (Xīnyìzhōu)

• Japanese: 新義州 (Shiniju)
• Korean: 신의주(新義州) (Sinuiju)

See also

• Uiju

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Sinuiju”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2934, column 3
• “Sinuiju”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Sinuiju”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Sinuiju”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Sinuiju” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.