Swabue

English

Etymology

From Teochew 汕尾 (suan3 bhuê2).

Proper noun

Swabue

1. (chiefly dated or historical) Synonym of Shanwei, a prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China: the Teochew-derived name.
   • 1924, Decennial Reports: On the Trade, Industries, etc., of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce, and on the Condition and Development of the Treaty Port Provinces (1912-21)‎^[2], volumes I: Northern and Yangtze Ports, Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs, pages 176–177:

     The first discovery of the ore was near Swabue in 1909; it contained 30 to 40 per cent.^[sic] of tungsten.

   • 1977, Roy, Jr. Hofheinz, The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928‎^[3], Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 264:

     British missionaries had been driven out of Swabue as early as 1925, at the beginning of the Hong Kong-Canton strike.

   • 1985, Fernando Galbiati, P'eng P'ai and the Hai-Lu-Feng Soviet‎^[4], Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 317:

     Up to December 13, the Italian priests in Swabue went unmolested—they had even been invited to stay on and collaborate.

   • 2003, Dan Pinck, Journey to Peking: A Secret Agent in Wartime China‎^[5], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 146:

     When they take him out in morning they lead him on short winding road by the sea to Swabue. The general's guerrillas cannot attack because they don't have equipment and besides there are hardly no trees or places to hide on way to Swabue.

   • 2017, Henry Sze Hang Choi, The Remarkable Hybrid Maritime World of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period‎^[6], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 191:

     However, the Kowloon Customs argued that although the collection of annual tax from these steam tugs was not under its jurisdiction, it also argued that because Hoifung county, where Swatow and Swabue were located, was a much poorer location, where trading activities could not compare with Tungkun, it was reasonable for Zhou to pay less annual tax than Chen did.

   • 2017, Zhiguang (李智广), et al. Li, “华南沿海地区海啸影响数值模拟与分析 [Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Tsunami Impacts on the Coastal Area of South China]”, in 武汉大学学报 ● 信息科学版‎^[7], volume 42, number 12, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     It costs 3.6 h to get to Qiongzhou Strait and the south of Fujian Province, and the maximum wave can reach 1.5-2.0 m. 2.6 h later, the region of Hong Kong, Macao and Swabue of Guangdong Province can detect the lead waves, and the maximum wave in this region is about 2.5 m.