Hsiung-Nu

Noun capitalized: Hsiung-nu

Hsiung-nu pl (plural only)

1. (alternative, plural, plural-only) Alternative form of Xiongnu.
   • During this period the Hsiung-nu were weak and failed to assert their power in the region. The more powerful states, Shan-shan (75) in the Lop region, So-ch'e (76) (Yarqand) and Yü-t'ien (77) (Khotan) had begun to absorb their lesser neighbors.1964, William Samolin, East Turkistan to the Twelfth Century, The Hague: Mouton & Co, page 27
   • The founder of the Han dynasty, the emperor Kao-ti, hastened to the scene, drove back the Hsiung-nu, but was then blockaded by them on the Paiteng plateau near Pingcheng, in the present-day district of Tatung, on the frontiers of Shansi.1970, René Grousset, translated by Naomi Walford, The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127