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Kuangchow

Kuangchow is the obsolete spelling of Guangzhou.

Meaning of Guangzhou

Proper noun

Guangzhou

  1. A major prefecture-level city and port, the capital and largest city of Guangdong, in southeastern China.
    • The Chinese side of the border, Shumchun, is a long building—a combination reception house, customs office, and dining facility. We were guided down corridors, past dining rooms crowded with businessmen noisily enjoying lunch before the train for Guangzhou pulled out.1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, “Of Chivas Regal and Mao Tse-tung”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15

Questions about Kuangchow

What is Kuangchow the obsolete spelling of?
Kuangchow is the obsolete spelling of Guangzhou.

Words near Kuangchow in the dictionary

  1. Kuang-chou
  2. Kuang-hsi
  3. Kuang-shui
  4. Kuang-tung
  5. Kuang-yüan
  6. Kuangchow
  7. Kuangs
  8. Kuangshan
  9. Kuangsi
  10. Kuangtong
  11. Kuangtung

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kuangchow (page history and authors); Guangzhou (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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