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Kweiyang

Kweiyang is the dated 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 Kweiyang

Borrowed from Mandarin 貴陽／贵阳 (Guìyáng).

Questions about Kweiyang

What is Kweiyang the dated form of?
Kweiyang is the dated form of Guiyang.

Words near Kweiyang in the dictionary

  1. kweenz
  2. Kweichow
  3. Kweilin
  4. Kweiping
  5. Kweisui
  6. Kweiyang
  7. kwela
  8. kweng
  9. kwenged
  10. kwengs
  11. Kweni

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kweiyang (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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