Samsui

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 三水 (saam1 seoi2).

Proper noun

Samsui

  1. Synonym of Sanshui: the Cantonese-derived name.
    • 2009, Mark R. Frost, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, “A Woman's World”, in Ibrahim Tahir, editor, Singapore: A Biography‎[1], Singapore: Editions Didier Millet Pte Ltd; National Museum of Singapore, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 204:
      It’s believed that between 1934 and 1938 close to 200,000 of these women arrived in Singapore and Malaya. One group that stood out from the throng were those women who hailed from Guangdong’s Samsui county (in Mandarin Sanshui, literally ‘three rivers’).
    • 2014, Kelvin E.Y. Low, quoting Chan Yun, “Local and Transnational Entanglements”, in Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China‎[2], UBC Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 93:
      When we went back, the Samsui county, like government ... [received us] with red carpet ... really big shot [that is, treated as important guests].

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