Suzhou Creek

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Suzhou Creek

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Partial calque from Mandarin 蘇州河／苏州河 (Sūzhōu Hé)

proper noun Soochow Creek

A river in Shanghai municipality and Jiangsu, China, between Lake Tai and the Huangpu River; despite its name, it is 78 miles long. News of the Nanking rape spread like wildfire and before long refugees were flooding into Shanghai across Suchou Creek and on to the Bund.
Similar: Suzhou, Wusong, Wusong River

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name creek

中文	蘇州河 /苏州河 Sūzhōu Hé

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@misc{suzhou_creek_2026,
  title = {Suzhou Creek},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/suzhou%20creek},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}