Panyu

See also: panyu and Pānyú

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) P'an-yü

Etymology

From Mandarin 番禺 (Pānyú).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpænˈju/, /ˌpɑn-/

Proper noun

Panyu

1. A district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
   • 1976, 世界陶磁全集‎^[1], volume 11, →OCLC, page 335:

     Excavated from the tomb of Southern Han Dynasty at Panyu District, Kuangtung.

   • 2010 January 25, James Pomfret, “Hundreds protest S.China project over pollution worries”, in Ken Wills, editor, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 05 May 2022, Environment‎^[3]:

     In recent months, authorities in southern Guangdong province have faced increasingly assertive protests by residents opposed to potentially high-polluting projects including plans for a waste incinerator in Guangzhou’s Panyu district that was eventually put off by authorities.

2. A former county of Guangdong, China.

Synonyms

• (postal romanization, from Cantonese) Punyu

Translations

a district and former county of China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 番禺 (pun¹ jyu⁴)

  Mandarin: 番禺 (zh) (Pānyú)

Further reading

• Panyu, P'an-yu, Pan-yu, Punyu at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Panyu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2359, column 1

Anagrams

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