Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Kaiping.
The seat of K'ai-p'ing County is 104 miles southwest of Canton. It is one of the four adjacent hsien lying to the west of the Pearl River delta, a region that has sent thousands of its residents to North America.
1984, Yuen-fong Woon, Social Organization in South China, 1911-1949: The Case of the Kuan Lneage of Kʻai-pʻing County, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212 more examples
When in the summer of 1944 the Japanese advanced to take the districts of T'ai-shan and San-shui, the county of K'ai-p'ing was menaced. The Chinese army had retreated, but the two tsu of Szu-t'u and Kuan organized themselves to fight for their homes.
1964 [1948], Hsien Chin Hu, The Common Descent Group in China and Its Functions, Johnson Reprint Corporation, →OCLC, page 67In addition to the language difference between the two major ethnic groups, there are differences among the Cantonese themselves. For example, people in four counties to the southwest of Canton—in T'ai-shan, K'ai-p'ing, Hsin-hui, and En-p'ing counties—speak a version of Cantonese which is almost unintelligible to residents of Canton.
1978, William L. Parish, Village and Family in Contemporary China, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 26
Origin
- Mandarin開平 /开平
- EnglishK'ai-p'ing
From Mandarin 開平 /开平 (Kāipíng), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-pʻing².
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