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Ku-ling

Ku-ling is the alternative form of Guling.

Meaning of Guling

Proper noun

Guling

  1. A town in Lushan, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, in eastern China.
    • In November 1981, he was touring Jiangsi province to explore investment possibilities and stopped for the night in Guling on Mount Lu. On the evening of Nov. 7, Hoose wrote a sentimental letter to his wife, Georgia. “Here I am, 61 years later, at the place I was born on June 2, 1920. Amazingly, I...2022 February 21, Mike Chinoy, quoting Harned Pettus Hoose, “‘I Can Think as the Chinese Do’”, in Foreign Policy, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2022

Origin of Ku-ling

From Mandarin 牯嶺 /牯岭 (Gǔlǐng), Wade–Giles romanization: Ku³-ling³.

Questions about Ku-ling

What is Ku-ling the alternative form of?
Ku-ling is the alternative form of Guling.

Words near Ku-ling in the dictionary

  1. Ku-ch'eng
  2. Ku-Klux
  3. Ku-Kluxed
  4. Ku-Kluxes
  5. Ku-Kluxing
  6. Ku-ling
  7. Ku-ring-gai
  8. Ku-ring-gai Chase
  9. Ku-shan
  10. Ku-shih
  11. Ku-su

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ku-ling (page history and authors); Guling (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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