Meanings
K'ai-yüan1
- alternativeAlternative form of Kaiyuan.
Born in K’ai-yüan county of Liaoning, Manchuria, in 1893, Sheng Shih-ts’ai had been reared "in a small family" and amid conditions of "poverty" and "cold."
1944, Martin R. Norins, Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West, John Day Company, →OCLC, page 382 more examples
We left Kirin at 10 A.M. on the 28th of January on our return to the port. Instead of retracing our steps by way of K’uan-ch’êng-tzŭ w^e resolved to follow the imperial highroad, which runs south-west from Kirin and joins the main road a little to the south of K’ai-yüan Hsien.
1910, Alexander Hosie, Manchuria: Its People, Resources and Recent History, volume 14, J. B. Millet Company, →OCLC, page 231At the height of the power of the Ch’i-tan Liao, the latter, having taken prisoners people of various countries, deported them and distributed them about this region between the Sungari and the K’ai-yüan Hsien country.
1912, Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea, Hachette & Company, →OCLC, page 259
K'ai-yüan2
- alternativeAlternative form of Kaiyuan.
Origin
K'ai-yüan · proper noun
- Mandarin開原 /开原
- EnglishK'ai-yüan
From Mandarin 開原 /开原 (Kāiyuán) Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-yüan².
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- Mandarin開遠 /开远
- EnglishK'ai-yüan
From Mandarin 開遠 /开远 (Kāiyuǎn) Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-yüan³.
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