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Kuei-lin

Kuei-lin is the alternative form of Guilin.

Meaning of Guilin

Proper noun

Guilin

  1. A city in the Guangxi autonomous region, China.
    • In early May, advance elements of Li Zong-ren’s Seventh Army of the Northern Expeditionary Force advanced from Guilin, securing Tang’s flanks and boosting his soldiers’ morale.1978, Angus W. McDonald, Jr., “Elites and the Mass Movement, 1926”, in The Urban Origins of Rural Revolution: Elites and the Masses in Hunan Province, China, 1911-1927, University of California...

Origin of Kuei-lin

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 桂林 (Kuei⁴-lin²).

Questions about Kuei-lin

What is Kuei-lin the alternative form of?
Kuei-lin is the alternative form of Guilin.

Words near Kuei-lin in the dictionary

  1. Kuehnert
  2. Kuehnes
  3. Kuehnhoefer
  4. Kuehns
  5. Kuei-chou
  6. Kuei-lin
  7. Kuei-p'ing
  8. Kuei-sui
  9. Kuei-yang
  10. Kueichih
  11. Kueichou

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kuei-lin (page history and authors); Guilin (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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