Suchan

See also: Suchań

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Czech Suchan or Polish Suchan.

Proper noun

Suchan (plural Suchans)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Suchan is the 35395^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 636 individuals. Suchan is most common among White (98.11%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Suchan”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Etymology 2

From Russian Сучан (Sučan).

Proper noun

Suchan

1. Synonym of Partizansk.
   • 1966 [1957], Михаил Иосифович Сладковский, “Economic Relations of Tsarist Russia with China in the Age of Imperialism”, in M. Roublev, transl., edited by G. Grause, History of Economic Relations Between Russia and China [Ocherki Ekonomicheskikh Othosnenii SSSR c Kitaem]‎^[1], Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, →OCLC, page 113:

     The agreement therefore transferred an 836-verst line connecting Khabarovsk to Vladivostok, to the C.E.R., with branches from Nikolsk-Ussuriiski [Ussuriisk] to the Manchurian frontier. The C. E. R., was also to manage the Suchan²³ branch line (74 verst), and wharfs on the Amur River at Khabarovsk and on the Ussuri River at Iman; in addition, it was entitled to use a strip of the Golden Horn Bay in Vladivostok harbor — the Egersheld warf.²⁴

     ²³ [Formerly Sucheng in Chinese.]

   • 1973 March 7 [1973 March 7], “NCNA Condemns New Soviet Place Names in Far East”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[2], volume I, number 45, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A 1‎^[3]:

     The town "Suchan" has been renamed "Partizansk" (meaning town of guerrillas) and the "North Suchan" workers' settlement renamed the "Uglekamensk" (meaning coal) workers' settlement. This place (namely Suchan) was referred to in a record in 1811 (the 16th year of the rule of Chiaching) in volume 8 of Sayinge's work 'Kirin Waichi" published in the early days of the rule of Taokuang in the Ching Dynasty and it was then called "Sucheng". V.K. Arsenyev pointed out too in his book "The Chinese in the Ussuri Territory" that "Suchan" is "Sucheng" in the Han dialect.

   • 1973 March 8, “China Raps Soviet's Change in City Names”, in The Japan Times‎^[4], volume 77, number 26,653, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 8:

     China complained that the town and district of Iman, which had been administered by China in the Ming Dynasty, had been renamed Dalnerechensk.
     Suchan had been renamed Partizansk and north Suchan as Uglekamensk. Lifudzin, a Manchu name, is now known as Rudny and Khungari had been renamed Gurskoe.

   • 2021, Ed Pulford, “On Frontiers and Fronts: Bandits, Partisans, and Manchuria’s Borders, 1900–1949”, in Modern China‎^[5], volume 47, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-22, page 677:

     By 1919 partisan activities were concentrated along the railway to the coal mining settlement of Suchan (Ch., Sucheng 蘇城). Led by Sergei Lazo (later a Bolshevik hero after being arrested by the Japanese in 1920 and killed by Cossacks who forced him into a running locomotive engine), the Olga partisans and others ambushed the mines’ Whites and interventionist guards at railway stations including Chinese-named Fanza and Sitsa (Borbat, 2015).

   • 2021 October 18, SheldonOswaldLee, “Chapter 73: War in Outer Manchuria”, in DeviantArt‎^[6], archived from the original on 2023-06-22‎^[7]:

     As the Americans in Kamchatka protested these Japanese aided Manchurian push North during Operation Kontokuen, the Manchurians and Mongols simply claimed to only retake lands stolen by Russia from the Chinese Empire, or their own ethnic nation states, declaring the Stanovoy Range the natural northern Manchurian Border. Captured towns and provinces regaiend^{[sic – meaning regained]} their original Chinese names, Vladivostok became Haishenwai once more, Suchan became Sucheng, Nocokiyevskoye became Nihonkaito, Olga became Anju, Ussuriysk became Shungchengsze, Kamen-Rybolov became Hongshiyan, Alexandrovsk.

Anagrams

• Chusan, chauns, nuchas, nusach

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.xan/
• Rhymes: -uxan
• Syllabification: Su‧chan

Proper noun

Suchan m pers

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Suchan

	singular	plural
nominative	Suchan	Suchanowie
genitive	Suchana	Suchanów
dative	Suchanowi	Suchanom
accusative	Suchana	Suchanów
instrumental	Suchanem	Suchanami
locative	Suchanie	Suchanach
vocative	Suchanie	Suchanowie

Proper noun

Suchan f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname