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Quantung

Quantung is the obsolete 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

Questions about Quantung

What is Quantung the obsolete form of?
Quantung is the obsolete form of Guangdong.

Words near Quantung in the dictionary

  1. quantum-tunnels
  2. quantumlike
  3. quantumly
  4. quantumness
  5. quantums
  6. Quantung
  7. quantuplicities
  8. quantuplicity
  9. Quanya
  10. Quanzhou
  11. Quanzhounese

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Quantung (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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