Kaoyu

English

Etymology

The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 高郵／高邮 (Gāoyóu).

Proper noun

Kaoyu

1. Alternative form of Gaoyou
   • 1971, John C. Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China‎^[1], Minneapolis, Minn.: World Wide Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 56:

     That bitterly cold winter the Grand Canal had frozen, and Nelson roared down the old Imperial Highway beside it until he reached open water eighty-three miles south of Tsingkiangpu, at Kaoyu.

   • 1975 March, “Herbal Medicines a Boon to Co-op Medical Care”, in China Reconstructs‎^[2], volume 24, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39:

     From nearby Kaoyu county they learned of a remedy made from a medicinal herb.

   • 2000, Anita M. Andrew, John A. Rapp, Autocracy and China's Rebel Founding Emperors‎^[3], Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 136:

     Kaoyu, with its back against the Kaopao Lake, had "the lake serving as a barrier" and was also an important stronghold covering T'aichou, Chang's strategic town for river defense; militarily it must not be abandoned lightly. But, more importantly, Chang, formerly a salt dealer, always regarded Kaoyu as his mecca.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kaoyu.

Translations

Gaoyou — see Gaoyou

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kaoyu”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 909, column 1

Anagrams

• Ayuko