Sui-ning

See also: Suining and Suíníng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 遂寧／遂宁 (Suìníng) Wade–Giles romanization: Sui⁴-ning².

Proper noun

Sui-ning

1. Alternative form of Suining
   • 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China‎^[1], published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91:

     Wang Shao’s Manual of White Sugar (T’ang-shuang p’u), written in the twelfth century, describes how in his native prefecture of Sui-ning in Szechwan as many as forty per cent of the peasants in some areas might be engaged in growing cane.

   • 2015, James M. Scott, Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor‎^[2], W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 168:

     The men rushed by the fastest means possible to the nearest airfield, at Sui-ning, arriving there three days later.

Translations

Suining — see Suining