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Guiyang

Syllables: Gui·yang

Guiyang proper noun: a prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Guizhou, in southwestern China.

Proper noun (1)

Guiyang

  1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Guizhou, in southwestern China.
    • In 1965 the NCNA reported the setting up of three ‘institutions of higher learning’ in Guiyang, Guizhou (Kweichow) Province.1970, R. F. Price, “Part-time schools and classes”, in Brian Holmes, editor, Education in Communist China (World education series), New York; Washington: Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 218
    • By early afternoon, I was in Kueiyang. Since this was the provincial capital of Kueichou, I decided to splurge and checked into the Plaza Hotel.[2015, Bill Porter, “The Miao [苗族]”, in South of the Clouds: Travels in Southwest China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72

Proper noun (2)

Guiyang

  1. (historical) A former commandery of late imperial China.

Guiyang meaning in Hindi, Arabic and Vietnamese

Guiyang in Hindi

a prefecture-level city in southwestern China
गुइयांग guiyāṅg

Guiyang in Arabic

a prefecture-level city in southwestern China
جُوي يَانْغ guy yānḡ, غُويْيَانْغ guyyang

Guiyang in Vietnamese

a prefecture-level city in southwestern China
Quý Dương

Forms of Guiyang

alternative formKuei-yang
alternative formKweiyang

Origin of Guiyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貴陽 /贵阳 (Guìyáng).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 桂陽 /桂阳 (Guìyáng).

Questions about Guiyang

What does Guiyang mean?
Guiyang means a prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Guizhou, in southwestern China.
What is Guiyang in Hindi?
Guiyang in Hindi is गुइयांग (guiyāṅg). See Guiyang meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Guiyang?
Guiyang is a proper noun.

Words near Guiyang in the dictionary

  1. Guiver
  2. guivre
  3. guivres
  4. Guixi
  5. Guixian
  6. Guiyang
  7. Guiyu
  8. Guizar
  9. guizard
  10. guizards
  11. Guizars

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