Kweiping
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Mandarin 桂平 (Guìpíng).
Proper noun
[edit]Kweiping
- (dated) Synonym of Guiping
- 1944 October 17, “Japs Capture Kweiping”, in The Bombay Chronicle[1], page 1:
- The Japanese took Kweiping south of Kweilin after bitter street fighting in which the Japanese suffered heavy casualties. The Chinese ‘communique’ issued on the night of October 15 says that the Chinese garrison which was out-numbered fought until they were killed to the last man, while the Japanese dead littered the streets.—Reuter.
- 1965, R. Kay Gresswell, Anthony Huxley, editors, Standard Encyclopedia of the World's Rivers and Lakes[2], New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 248:
- River traffic is important on the Si, although navigation is obstructed at many points by rapids and shallows. Ships of 10,000 tons call at Whampoa, Canton’s outer port, and vessels of 9-foot draft can travel upriver to Wuchow, the limit for ocean-going ships. Junks reach far into Kwangsi, and the Yuh is navigable for many months right up to Poseh on the Yunnan border, in spite of the difficult rapids between Kweiping and Nanning.
- 1979, Jan Myrdal, translated by Ann Henning, The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili through Sinkiang and Kansu[3], New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 91:
- On January 11, 1851, “the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’’ was proclaimed in Chintien village in Kweiping county in Kwangsi. The official ideology was Christian. This was the greatest uprising in China since the fall of the Ming dynasty.
- 2016, Bill Lascher, “"Why Should I Contribute a Little More Trash?"”, in Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two World War II Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pacific[4], 1st edition, William Morrow, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 31:
- Once their boat reached Tai Hong Kwong, a village alongside a sharp bend in the Pearl River north of Kweiping (Guiping), Ka Yik led his American friends down the muddy, narrow streets to a shop belonging to his father.