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Kaokouli

Kaokouli is the alternative form of Gaogouli.

Meaning of Gaogouli

Proper noun

Gaogouli

  1. Synonym of Goguryeo: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • The present-day city of Ji’an at the southern tip of Jilin province was the second capital (3-427 CE) of the Gaogouli kingdom during its middle period. During the twentieth century, Chinese archaeologists mapped out more than 12,000 Gaogouli tombs at 32 localities in the Ji’an region; over 90...2004, Xiaoneng Yang, “Early Imperial China (Qin Dynasty through Southern and Northern Dynasties Period)”, in Xiaoneng Yang, editor, New Perspectives on China's Past: Chinese Archaeology in the...
    Synonyms:
    Goguryeo

Origin of Kaokouli

From Mandarin 高句麗 (Gāogōulí), Wade–Giles romanization: Kao¹-kou¹-li².

Questions about Kaokouli

What is Kaokouli the alternative form of?
Kaokouli is the alternative form of Gaogouli.

Words near Kaokouli in the dictionary

  1. Kaohsiung
  2. Kaohsiung City
  3. Kaoka
  4. Kaokhangba
  5. Kaokoland
  6. Kaokouli
  7. Kaolack
  8. kaoliang
  9. kaoliangs
  10. kaolin
  11. kaolin clotting time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kaokouli (page history and authors); Gaogouli (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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