Kuang-chou

English

Map including KUANG-CHOU (CANTON) (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization Kuang³-chou¹ of Mandarin 廣州 / 广州 (Guǎngzhōu).

Proper noun

Kuang-chou

1. Alternative form of Guangzhou
   • 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎^[1], Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 143:

     At present the metropolitan area of Kuang-chou City alone comprises some 1,500,000 people or twice that of the Sung period for all of the two provinces.

   • 1955, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, “The Zen Sect of Buddhism”, in Studies in Zen‎^[2], Dell Publishing, page 13:

     In the year 520 he at last landed at Kuang-chou in Southern China.

   • 1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century‎^[3], University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 388:

     In an edict of 1851 (Tao-kuang 11), for example, the emperor authorized the provincial government of Kwangtung to encourage reclamation of uncultivated land in Kuang-chou, Chao-ch'ing, Shao-chou, Chia-ying, Lo-ting, Nan-hsiung, and Lien-chou.

   • 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China‎^[4], published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62:

     The main rice-producing areas were Kuang-chou, Hui-chou, Ch'ao-chou, Ying-te, Hsun-chou and Hsiang-chou.

Translations

Guangzhou — see Guangzhou

Further reading

• “Kuang-chou”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Kuang-chou”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Kuang-chou” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.