Su-chou

See also: Suchou

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 蘇州 (Sūzhōu), Wade–Giles romanization: Su¹-chou¹.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Proper noun

Su-chou

  1. Alternative form of Suzhou.
    • 1939, John C. Ferguson, Survey of Chinese Art‎[12], Shanghai: The Commercial Press, →OCLC, page 85:
      In the neighborhood of the present railway centre of Hsu-chou-fu where the Tientsin-Pukow line crosses the Lung-hai line there were good potteries at Hsiao-hsien, Su-chou and Ssŭ-chou. Those at Su-chou seemed to have produced more and better ware than those at the two other centers. In the Palace Museum there are several examples of vases and bowls made in Su-chou which are good imitations of Ting ware but it is of die t‘u ting variety.
    • 1977, Daniel Romualdez, China: A Personal Encounter with the People's Republic‎[13], Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:
      Our guide surprised us by refraining from exploiting it for propaganda purposes. In fact, she seemed to take a genuine delight in all the gardens of Su-chou- a fact which may explain why we saw so many of them. Not once did she say so much as a word about the decadence of life under the emperors.
    • 2006, Michael Calvert, “Shanghai (1937)”, in Jon E. Lewis, editor, The Giant Book of Battles‎[14], London: Magpie Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:
      Advancing on a broad front the Japanese captured Su-chou on 20 November.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Wade, Thomas Francis; Walter Caine Hillier (1886), Yü Yen Tzu Erh Chi A Progressive Course Designed to Assist the Student of Colloquial Chinese‎[1], 2nd edition, page 462: “蘇州 su¹ chou¹ . . . . . . . . Su-chou (Soochow), the prefecture of that name, in which stands the eastern capital of the province of Kiangsu.”
  2. ^ Library of Congress Pinyin Conversion Project‎[2], Library of Congress, 24 February 2000, archived from the original on 17 November 2001‎[3]:
    1. Generic terms for geographic locations and jurisdictions began with a lower-case letter in WG; they will be capitalized in PY:
    Ho-nan sheng == Henan Sheng
    Su-chou shih == Suzhou Shi
  3. ^ Nelson, Daniel (1944), An English — Chinese Romanized Dictionary [英漢國語字典]‎[4], Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House, →OCLC, page 294: “Soochow 蘇州 su¹ chou¹”
  4. ^ Sarton, George (1931), Introduction to the History of Science‎[5], number 376, page 422: “He wrote the following. (1) A topographical account in [..] books of the present Su¹-chou¹ (10320, 2444) region in the Chiang¹-nan² (1208, 8128), entitled Wu²-chün⁴ chih⁴ (12748, 3273, 1918); this is one of the earliest prefecture gazetteers.⁵”
  5. ^ Mitteilungen des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen an der‎[6] (in German), 1900, page 83: “Wohl zu unterscheiden von dem bekannten Su¹-chou¹ (Soochow) unweit von Shanghai.”
  6. ^ Mirror‎[7], number 14, 1945, page 44: “Soochow Su¹-Chou¹ (Wu²-Hsien⁴) 蘇州(吳縣)”
  7. ^ “Additional Terms”, in Chinese Phrase Book (TM 30-633)‎[8], Washington, D. C.: United States War Department, 10 December 1943, →OCLC, pages 218, 219, lines 1, 7:
    English Pronunciation […] Wade System Chinese Writing […]
    Wu-hsien (Soochow) WOOˇOO SH-YAN! (SOO JO) […] wu² hsien⁴ (su¹ chou¹) 吳縣(蘇州)
  8. ^ Language‎[9], volume 46, 1970, page 343: “For instance, the following seven words, representing the seven rime groups that have the open Div. II finals preceded by velar or glottal initials are pronounced in the Su¹-chou¹ dialect as follows:30”
  9. ^ MacGillivray, Donald (1918), A Mandarin-Romanized Dictionary of Chinese Including New Terms and Phrases, now current‎[10], 4th edition, Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press, page 828, line 15: “su¹-chou¹ 蘇州 Soochow. W. I. 103.”
  10. ^ Suzhou, Wade-Giles romanization Su-chou, in Encyclopædia Britannica
  11. ^ “Languages Other than English”, in The Chicago Manual of Style‎[11], Seventeenth edition, University of Chicago Press, 2017, →DOI, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 652: “Wade-Giles Postal atlas Pinyin […] Su-chou Soochow Suzhou”

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