Guangshui

Guang·shui
G2U1A1N1G2S1H4U1I1

proper noun

A county-level city of Suizhou, Hubei, in central China.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Kwangshui · alternative Kuang-shui

  1. A county-level city of Suizhou, Hubei, in central China.

    Besides habitat loss and alteration, poaching also gives cause for concern. Hunted males were observed for sale alongside Common Pheasant at a restaurant in Guangshui County, Hubei, in spring 2006.

    2008 August, Yang Liu, Zheng-wang Zhang, Jian-qiang Li, Yu Zhang, Shan Lu, Xiang-feng Ruan, “A survey of the birds of the Dabie Shan range, central China”, in Forktail, volume 24, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83, column 1
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    The area is one where the Reds have been strong for several years, and, allegedly reinforced by several thousand Reds, the revolting troops tore up some 30 li of railway track and occupied the whole area between Hsinyang and Wushengkuan, capturing Kuangshui.

    [1968, O. Edmund Clubb, “Armed Revolt”, in Communism in China, as Reported from Hankow in 1932, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 28

Origin

  1. Mandarin廣水 /广水
  2. EnglishGuangshui

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廣水 /广水 (Guǎngshuǐ).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 廣水 /广水
  • 廣水 /广水 (gwong² seoi²)a county-level city and a subdistrict in central China
Chinese Mandarin 廣水 /广水
  • 廣水 /广水 (Guǎngshuǐ)a county-level city and a subdistrict in central China
Japanese 広水市
  • 広水市a county-level city and a subdistrict in central China
Korean 광수이
  • 광수이 (gwangsu'i)a county-level city and a subdistrict in central China
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