Guiyang
See also: Guìyáng
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 1 edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貴陽/贵阳 (Guìyáng).
Proper noun edit
Guiyang
- A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Guizhou, in southwestern China.
- 2017 July 27, Emily Rauhala, “Transgender Chinese man wins first-of-its-kind labor discrimination case”, in The Washington Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 November 2017, WorldViews[2]:
- A court in the city of Guiyang ruled that Mr. C's employment rights were indeed violated. "The defendant terminated the contract with the plaintiff without a legitimate reason" and "infringed on the plaintiff’s equal employment rights," the ruling said. […]
Mr. C, a transgender Chinese man who says he was fired for wearing men's clothes, stands outside a court in Guiyang, China, July 27, 2017, holding the court’s ruling that his dismissal violated his employment rights.
Translations edit
a prefecture-level city in southwestern China
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Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guiyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[3], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1469, column 1
Etymology 2 edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 桂陽/桂阳 (Guìyáng).
Proper noun edit
Guiyang
- (historical) A former commandery of late imperial China.