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Punyu

Punyu proper noun: synonym of Panyu.

Proper noun

Punyu

  1. Synonym of Panyu.
    • The 78-year-old married informant was from Fo Chyun in Punyu, one in a cluster of villages centering on the market town of Loh Gong. All villages in the cluster shared the same surname.1989, Janice E. Stockard, Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860-1930, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 16
    • Zhuang grew up in Punyu, an impoverished town outside Guangzhou. No one in Punyu could afford a table tennis table.2014, Nicholas Griffin, Ping-Pong Diplomacy, Simon & Schuster, published 2015, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 113
    Synonyms:
    Panyu

Synonyms of Punyu

Origin of Punyu

From Cantonese 番禺 (pun1 jyu4).

Questions about Punyu

What does Punyu mean?
Punyu means synonym of Panyu.
What part of speech is Punyu?
Punyu is a proper noun.

Words near Punyu in the dictionary

  1. puny
  2. Punycode
  3. punyish
  4. punyism
  5. punyness
  6. Punyu
  7. Punzalan
  8. Punzalans
  9. Punzo
  10. Punzos
  11. PUO

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