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Kaoyu

Kaoyu is the alternative form of Gaoyou.

Meaning of Gaoyou

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

Origin of Kaoyu

The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 高郵／高邮 (Gāoyóu).

Questions about Kaoyu

What is Kaoyu the alternative form of?
Kaoyu is the alternative form of Gaoyou.

Words near Kaoyu in the dictionary

  1. Kaori
  2. Kaoru
  3. Kaosiung
  4. Kaoteng
  5. kaowool
  6. Kaoyu
  7. KAP
  8. kapa
  9. kapa haka
  10. Kapadia
  11. Kapadias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kaoyu (page history and authors); Gaoyou (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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