Suiping

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 遂平.

Proper noun

Suiping

1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
   • 1934, White Unto Harvest in China: A Survey of the Lutheran United Mission, the China Mission of the N.L.C.A., 1890-1934‎^[1], →OCLC, page 76:

     The city of Suiping is situated on the Peking-Hankow Railway and is the farthest north of our mission stations. It is the center of a district with a population of approximately 300,000 people who rank comparatively high in literacy.
     Suiping was opened as a main station in 1912 when Rev. H. M. Nesse arrived to take charge of the mission work.

   • 1958, India Quarterly‎^[2], volumes 14-15, Indian Council of World Affairs, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:

     Two counties—Suiping and Pingyu—in the Hsinyang district of Honan province took the lead in this movement.

   • 1978 February, Rewi Alley, “The Epic of Chumatien”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[3], volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:

     Actually they planted so much that there was a surplus. Suiping county alone sold 50,000 tons of turnips and cabbage to the state.

   • 2019 March 14, Mandy Zuo, “Chinese school segregates boys from girls in cafeteria as part of clampdown on teenage romances”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-03-14, Society‎^[5]:

     The school has also banned students from hand-holding and time alone with each other, pupils from Suiping County No 1 High School in Henan province said on the news-clip platform Pear Video this week.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Suiping.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遂平 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: सुइपिंग (suipiṅga)