Guangshui

See also: Guǎngshuǐ

English

Alternative forms

• Kwangshui (Postal Romanization)
• Kuang-shui (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廣水／广水 (Guǎngshuǐ).

Proper noun

Guangshui

1. A county-level city in Suizhou, Hubei, in central China.
   • 2008 August, Yang Liu, Zheng-wang Zhang, Jian-qiang Li, Yu Zhang, Shan Lu, Xiang-feng Ruan, “A survey of the birds of the Dabie Shan range, central China”, in Forktail‎^[1], volume 24, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83, column 1:

     Besides habitat loss and alteration, poaching also gives cause for concern. Hunted males were observed for sale alongside Common Pheasant at a restaurant in Guangshui County, Hubei, in spring 2006.

2. A subdistrict in Guangshui, Suizhou, Hubei, central China.

Translations

a county-level city and a subdistrict in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廣水／广水 (zh) (Guǎngshuǐ)

• Japanese: 広水市
• Korean: 광수이 (gwangsu'i)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guangshui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[2], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1455, column 3