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Kweilin

Kweilin 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 Kweilin

From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 桂林 (Guìlín).

Questions about Kweilin

What is Kweilin the alternative form of?
Kweilin is the alternative form of Guilin.

Words near Kweilin in the dictionary

  1. kwee
  2. kween
  3. kweens
  4. kweenz
  5. Kweichow
  6. Kweilin
  7. Kweiping
  8. Kweisui
  9. Kweiyang
  10. kwela
  11. kweng

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kweilin (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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