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Kwangtung

UK/ˈkwæŋˈtʊŋ/US/ˈkwɑŋˈtʊŋ/

Kwangtung is the alternative form of Guangdong.

Meaning of Guangdong

Proper noun

Guangdong

  1. A populous province of China, located on the southern coast. Capital: Guangzhou.
    • After the break-up of the 1924-1927 United Front, the Chinese Communist Party set up Soviets—liberated districts— in several parts of South China. One of the earliest liberated areas, organized in 1927-1928, was in the Hailufeng District of Guangdong Province.1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, “Women: Half of Heaven”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135

Origin of Kwangtung

From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 廣東 /广东 (Guǎngdōng).

Words formed from Kwangtung

  • Kwangtung ware

Questions about Kwangtung

What is Kwangtung the alternative form of?
Kwangtung is the alternative form of Guangdong.
How do you pronounce Kwangtung?
Kwangtung is pronounced /ˈkwɑŋˈtʊŋ/ (US).

Words near Kwangtung in the dictionary

  1. Kwangchowan
  2. Kwangju
  3. Kwangmyong
  4. kwangoside
  5. Kwangsi
  6. Kwangtung
  7. kwanjula
  8. kwanjulas
  9. Kwannon
  10. kwans
  11. Kwantien

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kwangtung (page history and authors); Guangdong (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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