Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Guilin.
In 1940 he received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Chiao-t'ung University in Shanghai and went to work as an engineer at the Central Radio Works in Kuei-lin.
2011, Charles W. Carey, Jr., Wang, An (American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries), Revised edition, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 3993 more examples
We anchored for the night at Pai-sha, a rowdy little place, where they talked of killing us, situated at the point of junction with our stream of a northern tributary, navigable almost to Kuei-lin, the capital of this province.
1898, “Province of Kwang-si”, in Report of the Mission to China of the Blackburn Chamber of Commerce 1896-7, North-east Lancashire Press Company, page 124One authority of that age tells of the defeat of Man and the Lo-tzu by the partly sinicized soldiers of Ch'u at the end of the seventh century B.C., presumably driving these savages farther south; another T'ang scholar gives the more daring opinion that the natives of Kuei-lin in northern Kwangsi were subject to the Ch'u nation in late Chou times.
1967, Edward H. Schafer, The Vermilion Bird, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15YANG SHU-TIEN and I boarded the plane after our arrival in Canton and reached Kuei-lin in the afternoon about three o'clock. Ho Li-chih, from the local China Travel Service, took us to the Kuei-lin Hotel, passing on the way an old wall said to be part of a mansion erected for a prince of the T'ang period. Not far from the old wall, a large, flourishing banyan tree had been left in the middle of the road. Kuei-lin has a subtropical climate and in the early summer everywhere is filled with green tree and red blossoms.
1977, Chiang Yee, China Revisited, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 151
Origin
- Mandarin桂林
- EnglishKuei-lin
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 桂林 (Kuei⁴-lin²).
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