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Gaoyou

Syllables: Gao·you

Gaoyou proper noun: a county-level city of Yangzhou, Jiangsu, in eastern China.

Proper noun

Gaoyou

  1. A county-level city of Yangzhou, Jiangsu, in eastern China.
    • Among the rebel leaders who appeared in the Huai area after the 1351 floods was a more ambitious man than Fang Kuo-chen, named Chang Shih-ch'eng 張士誠 (1321-1367). Like Fang, Chang had a salt trade background. Native to the Kao-yu region of modern Kiangsu province, north of the Yangtze, Chang and his...[1978, Charles O. Hucker, The Ming Dynasty, its Origins and Evolving Institutions, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10
    • Seven people were killed in Gaoyou city in neighboring Jiangsu province, the agency said, adding that 53 were injured.
    • "Winds and heavy rain cut off power and telecommunications, ripped off rooftops and uprooted thousands of trees," a Gaoyou government official was quoted as saying.2007 July 4, “Tornado kills 14, injures 146 in eastern China”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2016, Green Business

Forms of Gaoyou

alternative formKaoyu
alternative formKao-yu

Origin of Gaoyou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高郵 /高邮 (Gāoyóu).

Questions about Gaoyou

What does Gaoyou mean?
Gaoyou means a county-level city of Yangzhou, Jiangsu, in eastern China.
What part of speech is Gaoyou?
Gaoyou is a proper noun.

Words near Gaoyou in the dictionary

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

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