Kaoyu
English edit
Etymology edit
The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 高郵／高邮 (Gāoyóu).
Proper noun edit
Kaoyu
- Alternative form of Gaoyou
- 1971, John C. Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China[1], Minneapolis, Minn.: World Wide Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 56:
- That bitterly cold winter the Grand Canal had frozen, and Nelson roared down the old Imperial Highway beside it until he reached open water eighty-three miles south of Tsingkiangpu, at Kaoyu.
- 1975 March, “Herbal Medicines a Boon to Co-op Medical Care”, in China Reconstructs[2], volume 24, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39:
- From nearby Kaoyu county they learned of a remedy made from a medicinal herb.
- 2000, Anita M. Andrew, John A. Rapp, Autocracy and China's Rebel Founding Emperors[3], Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 136:
- Kaoyu, with its back against the Kaopao Lake, had "the lake serving as a barrier" and was also an important stronghold covering T'aichou, Chang's strategic town for river defense; militarily it must not be abandoned lightly. But, more importantly, Chang, formerly a salt dealer, always regarded Kaoyu as his mecca.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kaoyu.
Translations edit
Gaoyou — see Gaoyou
Further reading edit
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kaoyu”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 909, column 1