Kuaiji

See also: kuàijì and Kuàijī

English

Alternative forms

• Kuaichi (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 會稽／会稽 (Kuàijī).

Proper noun

Kuaiji

1. A mountain near Shaoxing, Zhejiang, in China legendarily associated with Yu the Great.
   • 1988 August 31, Edward A. Gargan, “China's Heady and Heralded Yellow Wine From Shaoxing”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 December 2010, Home & Garden, page 3‎^[2]:

     IN 240 B.C., Lu Buwei, the Prime Minister of China under the first Emperor of the Qin dynasty, directed the compilation of an encyclopedia of all that was known. Called the "Spring and Autumn Annals," the encyclopedia included myriad tales, this among them:
     "The King of Yue stopped at Kuaiji. There, he poured wine in the river. His men drank from the waters and then fought with a hundredfold more energy."

2. (historical) A former Chinese commandery located around Hangzhou Bay.
3. (historical) A former name of Suzhou and Shaoxing, held during their time as capital of the commandery.
4. (historical) A former Chinese county around Shaoxing.

Translations

mountain

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 會稽／会稽 (zh) (Kuàijī)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Kuaiji, Kuaichi, Kuai-chi at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.