Guizhou
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See also: Guìzhōu
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (Tongyong Pinyin) Gueijhou, (uncommon) Gueizhou, Kueichow, Kweichow
- Kueichou, Kuei-chou (Wade–Giles)
- Queicheu, Quicheu (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貴州 / 贵州 (Guìzhōu).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guizhou
- A province in southwestern China. Capital: Guiyang.
- 2015 June 12, Edward Wong, “Chinese Premier Urges Officials to Fight Events That Led 4 Children to Drink Pesticide”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-06-13, Asia Pacific[2]:
- The siblings lived in a house in Guizhou Province, one of the poorest areas in China; their village, Cizhu, is under the administration of the city of Bijie.
- 2016 September 13, Ishaan Tharoor, “The incredible sight of China’s latest record-breaking bridge”, in The Washington Post[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 September 2016, WorldViews[4]:
- Over the weekend, engineers in China's mountainous southwestern Guizhou province linked the two ends of a bridge spanning a rocky gorge. The completion of the Beipanjiang bridge marks yet another infrastructure record in China — the world's "highest" bridge, sitting 1,854 feet above the river below.
- 2019 July 25, “Chinese landslide kills 15, 30 still missing”, in Deutsche Welle[5], archived from the original on July 25, 2019, News[6]:
- A mudslide in the south-western province of Guizhou has resulted in 15 deaths. Thirty people are still missing as the search continues.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Guizhou.
Descendants
[edit]- Latin: guizhouensis
Translations
[edit]province of China
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See also
[edit]Provinces: Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan (claimed) · Yunnan · Zhejiang |
Autonomous regions: Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang |
Municipalities: Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing |
Special administrative regions: Hong Kong · Macau |
Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guizhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1469, column 1
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