Guiyang

See also: Guìyáng

English

Alternative forms

• Kuei-yang (Wade–Giles)
• Kweiyang (Postal Romanization)

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貴陽／贵阳 (Guìyáng).

Proper noun

Guiyang

1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Guizhou, in southwestern China.
   • [2015, Bill Porter, “The Miao [苗族]”, in South of the Clouds: Travels in Southwest China‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72:

     By early afternoon, I was in Kueiyang. Since this was the provincial capital of Kueichou, I decided to splurge and checked into the Plaza Hotel.]

   • 2017 July 27, Emily Rauhala, “Transgender Chinese man wins first-of-its-kind labor discrimination case”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 November 2017, WorldViews‎^[3]:

     A court in the city of Guiyang ruled that Mr. C's employment rights were indeed violated. "The defendant terminated the contract with the plaintiff without a legitimate reason" and "infringed on the plaintiff’s equal employment rights," the ruling said. […]
     Mr. C, a transgender Chinese man who says he was fired for wearing men's clothes, stands outside a court in Guiyang, China, July 27, 2017, holding the court’s ruling that his dismissal violated his employment rights.

Translations

a prefecture-level city in southwestern China

• Arabic: جُوي يَانْغ m (guy yānḡ), غُويْيَانْغ m (guyyang)
• Bouyei: Gvisyuangz
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 貴陽／贵阳 (gwai³ joeng⁴)

  Mandarin: 貴陽／贵阳 (zh) (Guìyáng)

• Hungarian: Kujjang (hu)
• Japanese: 貴陽 (きよう, Kiyō)
• Korean: 구이양 (Gu'iyang)
• Macedonian: Гуијанг m (Guijang)
• Russian: Гуйя́н m (Gujján)
• Vietnamese: Quý Dương
• Zhuang: Gveiyangz

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guiyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1469, column 1

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 桂陽／桂阳 (Guìyáng).

Proper noun

Guiyang

1. (historical) A former commandery of late imperial China.

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桂陽／桂阳 (zh) (Guìyáng)