Suqian

See also: Sùqiān

English

Map including SUQIAN (walled) (DMA, 2000)

Alternative forms

• Sutsien (Postal Romanization)
• Su-ch'ien (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宿遷／宿迁 (Sùqiān).

Proper noun

Suqian

1. A prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, in eastern China.
   • [1970 July 9 [1970 June 17], “Kiangsu Party Activity”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 132, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Nanking Kiangsu Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, East Region, page C 11:

     Leading members of party organizations at all levels in Suchien County, Kiangsu, have taken the lead in studying and applying the new party Constitution.]

   • 2008 August 3, Jim Yardley, “The State Requests That Citizen Liu Win Gold”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 January 2018, Play Magazine‎^[2]:

     Coaches begin identifying prospects during regular visits to local elementary schools. Consider that in just one city — Suqian, in Jiangsu Province — every government district was asked to assess children from the ages of 8 to 13 and select candidates for sports schools.

   • 2021 February 26, Pak Yiu, Gabriel Crossley, “Chinese court backs publisher of textbook calling homosexuality 'psychological disorder'”, in Karishma Singh, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 2021-04-15, China‎^[4]:

     According to a copy of the Feb. 9 appeal ruling seen by Reuters, Suyu District Intermediate Court in the city of Suqian said the description resulted from "perceptual differences" and was not a factual error, upholding a judgment made in September last year.

Translations

a prefecture-level city in eastern China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宿遷／宿迁 (zh) (Sùqiān)

• Hungarian: Szucsien (hu)