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Kuei-yang

Kuei-yang is the alternative form of Guiyang.

Meaning of Guiyang

Proper noun (1)

Guiyang

  1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Guizhou, in southwestern China.
    • In 1965 the NCNA reported the setting up of three ‘institutions of higher learning’ in Guiyang, Guizhou (Kweichow) Province.1970, R. F. Price, “Part-time schools and classes”, in Brian Holmes, editor, Education in Communist China (World education series), New York; Washington: Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 218

Proper noun (2)

Guiyang

  1. (historical) A former commandery of late imperial China.

Origin of Kuei-yang

From Mandarin 貴陽 /贵阳 (Guìyáng) cf. Wade–Giles romanization: Kuei⁴-yang².

Questions about Kuei-yang

What is Kuei-yang the alternative form of?
Kuei-yang is the alternative form of Guiyang.

Words near Kuei-yang in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Kuei-yang (page history and authors); Guiyang (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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