Helan Suni Que

Helan Suni Que, 賀蘭蘇尼闕, is a Göktürk title that the Tongdian explains in two parts. The Göktürks, it says, called a horse helan, and so there was the helan suni que.^[1] Suni, it adds, was the officer who commanded the troops.^[1] The passage belongs to its account of the early ranks of the khaganate. Their names were taken from the body, from age, from colour and hair, from wine and meat, or from animals.^[1]

One translation gives the Turkic reading kulan for helan.^[2] The Tongdian does not explain the last element, que. It names no holder of the title.^[1]