Sutsien

English

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 宿遷／宿迁 (Sùqiān).

Proper noun

Sutsien

1. Alternative form of Suqian
   • 1949, Frank A. Brown, The Last Hundred Days‎^[2], Shanghai: Board of Missions, Presbyterian Church in the United States, →OCLC, page 11:

     In the Sutsien country field three Christian leaders and three children have been killed by shells and bombs.

   • 1970, Arthur Waley, Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet‎^[3], 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.

Anagrams

• intuses