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Meaning of sui | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
/sweɪ/

Definitions

  1. Clipping of suicide.
    Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
  2. Initialism of stress urinary incontinence.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  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.

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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