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Kwang-chow Foo

Kwang-chow Foo is the alternative form 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

Origin of Kwang-chow Foo

From Mandarin 廣州府 /广州府 (Guǎngzhōu fǔ, “Guangzhou prefecture”). See also Kwang-chow, Kwangchow.

Questions about Kwang-chow Foo

What is Kwang-chow Foo the alternative form of?
Kwang-chow Foo is the alternative form of Guangzhou.

Words near Kwang-chow Foo in the dictionary

  1. kwan
  2. KwaNdebele
  3. Kwando
  4. Kwang
  5. Kwang-chow
  6. Kwang-chow Foo
  7. kwanga
  8. kwangas
  9. Kwangchow
  10. Kwangchowan
  11. Kwangju

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kwang-chow Foo (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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