Guiyang
See also: Guìyáng
English
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editEtymology 1
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貴陽/贵阳 (Guìyáng).
Proper noun
editGuiyang
- A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Guizhou, in southwestern China.
- [2015, Bill Porter, “The Miao [苗族]”, in South of the Clouds: Travels in Southwest China[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72:
- By early afternoon, I was in Kueiyang. Since this was the provincial capital of Kueichou, I decided to splurge and checked into the Plaza Hotel.]
- 2017 July 27, Emily Rauhala, “Transgender Chinese man wins first-of-its-kind labor discrimination case”, in The Washington Post[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 November 2017, WorldViews[3]:
- 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
edita 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[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1469, column 1
Etymology 2
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 桂陽/桂阳 (Guìyáng).
Proper noun
editGuiyang
- (historical) A former commandery of late imperial China.
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