Gaoyao

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高要 (Gāoyāo).

Proper noun

Gaoyao

1. A district of Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China
   • 2007 May 7, Keith Bradsher, “Concerns raised on China's global health disclosures”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 March 2023, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     A man answering the phones at the city government of Gaoyao, located 230 kilometers to the northwest of Hong Kong, confirmed late Monday afternoon that pigs were dying there. […]
     Hong Kong media were full of lurid accounts Monday of pigs staggering around with blood pouring from their bodies in Gaoyao and neighboring Yunfu, both in Guangdong Province.

   • 2016 July 3, Louise Watt, “Police injured as residents protest incinerator in China”, in AP News‎^[3], archived from the original on 31 May 2022‎^[4]:

     A propaganda department of Zhaoqing city’s Gaoyao district, which oversees Lubu town with a population of more than 70,000, said police were injured.
     In a post on its official Sina Weibo account, Gaoyao’s Communist Party committee propaganda department said that around noon “some ordinary people who are unaware of the truth led by some troublemakers attempted to storm the Lubu town government” and attacked and injured some police officers who were trying to maintain order. It said those people should surrender themselves to police and people at the government offices should leave the site immediately. […]
     The post by the Gaoyao propaganda department was removed later Sunday afternoon. Photos of the protest also posted on Sina Weibo had earlier apparently been taken down by censors.

   • 2021, He Tian, Yanbin Lv, editors, Assessing Government Transparency in China (2018)‎^[5], →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 59–60:

     Secondly, associated demonstration of the breakdown structure and the progress of government work has been made on government web portals. The governments of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province and Gaoyao District, Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, have set up special webpages to disclose information about each work task of the government.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高要 (zh) (Gāoyāo)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Koyiu”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 978, column 2: “Mandarin Kaoyao”
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Gaoyao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1317, column 1