Szeyap

Proper noun

Szeyap

1. Synonym of Siyi.
   • The Sunning Railroad, connecting Peikai and Towshan, by way of Kongmoon and inland tawns of Szeyap districts, had to suspend operation again on March 12, because of lack of coal, for the import of which by way of Hongkong is still being interfered with by pickets of the Canton Strike Committee...1926 March 27, “News from South China”, in The China Weekly Review, volume XXXVI, number 4, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 98
   • These sojourners were quite a homogeneous group in language, culture, family, and socioeconomic status. Practically all of them were peasants from the arid Szeyap (i.e., "four districts") area southwest of Canton, the capital city of the province of Kwangtung.1985, Grace Pung Guthrie, A School Divided: An Ethnography of Bilingual Education in a Chinese Community, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN, page 33

   Synonyms:

   Siyi