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Gaoyao

Syllables: Gao·yao

Gaoyao proper noun: a district of Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China.

Proper noun

Gaoyao

  1. A district of Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China.
    • A man answering the phones at the city government of Gaoyao, located 230 kilometers to the northwest of Hong Kong, confirmed late Monday afternoon that pigs were dying there.[…]
    • Hong Kong media were full of lurid accounts Monday of pigs staggering around with blood pouring from their bodies in Gaoyao and neighboring Yunfu, both in Guangdong Province.2007 May 7, Keith Bradsher, “Concerns raised on China's global health disclosures”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2023, Asia Pacific

Origin of Gaoyao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高要 (Gāoyāo).

Questions about Gaoyao

What does Gaoyao mean?
Gaoyao means a district of Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China.
What part of speech is Gaoyao?
Gaoyao is a proper noun.

Words near Gaoyao in the dictionary

  1. gaou
  2. gaour
  3. gaours
  4. Gaoxiong
  5. Gaoyang
  6. Gaoyao
  7. gaoyinruan
  8. Gaoyou
  9. Gaozhou
  10. gap
  11. gap buffer

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