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Meaning of sui | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
sweɪ

Definitions

  1. Clipping of suicide.
  2. Initialism of stress urinary incontinence.
  3. The Sui dynasty of China which ruled from 581 to 618.
  4. A county of Suizhou, Hubei, China.
  5. A member of an ethnic people living primarily in the Guizhou province of China, with around 430,000 people.
  6. The language of these people, part of the Kra-Dai language family.
  7. A surname of Chinese origin.

Equivalents

Français sui
Italiano sui

Examples

“At P’inglin (north-east of the present Sui county, Hupeh), more than one thousand people rose under Ch’en Mu, calling themselves the “P’inglin Army”.”
“Shen-nung’s geographical origin has been controversial. According to a peasant tradition he was born in a village at the northern border of the county of Sui in Hupei and has been worshipped there (Ching-chou-chi in T’P’YL 189, 6b).”
“In the past, Mao Pao was ferried across the river [in time of danger] because earlier he had set free a tortoise,⁵ and the marquis of Sui received a pearl because he had saved a snake.⁶ [...]⁶ Sui was a principality (in Sui County in modern Hupeh Province) in the Warring States period. The marquis of Sui once saved a wounded snake. In return, the snake searched for a large pearl in the river and gave it to the marquis.”
“By 1985, a volume of the famous scholar Jao Tsung-I/Rao Zongyi (together with Tseng Hsien-tung/Zeng Xiantong) appeared under the title “Studies on the Inscriptions of the Bells and Chimes From the Tomb of Marquis Yi of the Tseng State at Sui-Hsien” (Province of Ho-pei/Hebei, county of Sui).”
“Mr Zeng returned to Sui county, about 200km north of Wuhan, on January 21 to celebrate the Chinese new year with his parents.[...]“If the disease drags on for two months, the start-up I work for will go under and I’ll lose my job,” he said. “There is nothing I can do about this except hope the epidemic will end soon. I am ready to spend a few months in Sui County.””

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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