Guigang

See also: Guìgǎng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 貴港 / 贵港 (Guìgǎng).

Proper noun

Guigang

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangxi, China.
   • 2000 August 1, Clay Chandler, “A Golden Goose in Red China? Entrepreneur Bets Millions That Foie Gras Will Fatten Export Figures”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 August 2017‎^[2]:

     Early offerings--many of them packaged in sultry covers featuring buxom women in silk pajamas--were huge sellers. But when copycats and counterfeiters drove down margins, Chan switched to real estate, snapping up 200 acres of land in the city of Guigang and erecting dozens of office towers and residential developments. Among his most ambitious recent projects: a luxury Guigang housing complex dubbed "Wealthy Persons' New Town." […]
     Chan's business partners swear he's loaded, an assessment shared by some of Guangxi's most influential citizens.

   • 2018 May 10, Dominique Patton, “China's multi-story hog hotels elevate industrial farms to new levels”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 10 February 2019, Business News‎^[4]:

     The site, however, is relatively close to Guigang, a city with a river port and waterway connections to the Pearl River Delta, one of the world’s most densely populated regions.

Synonyms

• Gui County
• Gui Xian, Guixian

Translations

a prefecture-level city in Guangxi, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 貴港 / 贵港 (gwai³ gong²)

  Mandarin: 貴港 / 贵港 (zh) (Guìgǎng)

• Hungarian: Kujkang (hu)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guigang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1465, column 2: “Formerly called Guixian.”

Anagrams

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