Kuei-yang

English

Map including KUEI-YANG (KWEIYANG) (AMS, 1954)

Etymology

From Mandarin 貴陽／贵阳 (Guìyáng) cf. Wade–Giles romanization: Kuei⁴-yang².

Pronunciation

• enPR: gwāʹyängʹ

Proper noun

Kuei-yang

1. Alternative form of Guiyang
   • 1903, F. Howard Taylor, These Forty Years‎^[1], Pepper Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 221:

     The sun was shining on the fair plain, which stretched out before them--away to the distant mountains; and the city of Kuei-yang itself was right before them, with its temples, its towers and its luxuriant trees.

   • 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎^[2], Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8:

     Settlements at a few favored basins, and strategic outposts were established very early, such as those at Kuei-yang and K'un-ming, but the vast extent of the territory remained under the local autonomous rule of tribal chieftains with nominal subservience to the Chinese Emperor.

   • 1967, Yuan-li Wu, The Spatial Economy of Communist China‎^[3], Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 145:

     For our purpose new economic centers are defined as those vigorously developed in Communist China prior to the economic crisis in 1960-62, but not necessarily completely new industrial centers. They consist of 26 cities included in categories A-II and B-II in Table 4-8 and B2, B3, B4, B5, and B8 in Table 4-3 (excluding Soochow and Kuei-yang, which are predominantly nonindustrial).

   • 1993 October 20, “James T.C. Liu”, in Town Topics‎^[4], volume 48, number 33, Princeton, N.J., page 41:

     Prof. Liu's family was from Kuei-yang in Kweichow, China, and he grew up in Shanghai.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kuei-yang.

Translations

Guiyang — see Guiyang

Further reading

• “Kuei-yang”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Kuei-yang”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Kuei-yang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.