K'ai-yüan

See also: kāiyuán and Kaiyuan

English

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 開原 / 开原 (Kāiyuán) Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-yüan².

Proper noun

K'ai-yüan

1. Alternative form of Kaiyuan
   • 1910, Alexander Hosie, Manchuria: Its People, Resources and Recent History‎^[1], volume 14, J. B. Millet Company, →OCLC, page 231:

     We left Kirin at 10 A.M. on the 28th of January on our return to the port. Instead of retracing our steps by way of K’uan-ch’êng-tzŭ w^e resolved to follow the imperial highroad, which runs south-west from Kirin and joins the main road a little to the south of K’ai-yüan Hsien.

   • 1912, Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea‎^[2], Hachette & Company, →OCLC, page 259‎^[3]:

     At the height of the power of the Ch’i-tan Liao, the latter, having taken prisoners people of various countries, deported them and distributed them about this region between the Sungari and the K’ai-yüan Hsien country.

   • 1944, Martin R. Norins, Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West‎^[4], John Day Company, →OCLC, page 38:

     Born in K’ai-yüan county of Liaoning, Manchuria, in 1893, Sheng Shih-ts’ai had been reared "in a small family" and amid conditions of "poverty" and "cold."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:K'ai-yüan.

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kaiyüan or K’ai-yüan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 896, column 1

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 開遠 / 开远 (Kāiyuǎn) Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-yüan³.

Proper noun

K'ai-yüan

1. Alternative form of Kaiyuan

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kaiyüan or K’ai-yüan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 896, column 1