Shiukwan

Proper noun

Shiukwan

1. (dated) Synonym of Shaoguan: the Cantonese-derived name.
   • Eight out of twelve Japanese planes were shot down when nineteen Chinese planes intercepted and surprised them at Namhung, ninety miles from Canton according to a Chinese communique. Eighteen other Japanese planes dropped sixty bombs on Shiukwan causing heavy casualties.—Reuter.1938 August 31, “On Chinese Front”, in The Bombay Chronicle, page 1
   • The country as I saw it from the train was magnificently green, and after Shiukwan it became seriously mountainous, so that the brave new railway wound precariously up the river-banks. At Pingshek, fourteen hours by train from Canton, I was only a few miles from Hunan.1946, Richard P. Dobson, “Kwangtung”, in China Cycle, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, pages 46-47

   Synonyms:

   Shaoguan