Suoge Tudun

Suoge Tudun, 索葛吐屯, is a Göktürk title that the Tongdian explains from the word for hair. The Göktürks, it says, called hair suoge, and so there was the suoge tudun.^[1] The Tongdian likens the office to that of an official of a Chinese prefecture or commandery.^[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]

The second element is the title tudun, 吐屯. The same passage counts it among the great offices.^[1] In its chapter on the west, the Tongdian uses the title for the officers whom Tong Yabgu sent to the kings of the western states. He sent one officer to each king, to watch over him and to see to his taxes.^[2] For the suoge tudun the Tongdian names no holder.^[1]