Kweiyang

K5W4E1I1Y4A1N1G2

A form of Guiyang — A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Guizhou, in southwestern China.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

proper noun
  1. datedDated form of Guiyang.

    Another poster which appeared in Kweiyang City in southern China March 25, says that Kweichow Province has become a “world of coupons.”

    1975 May 25, “Turmoil on mainland”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 20, Taipei, page 3
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    To the south, the original road from Chungking to Kweiyang in Kweichow has been supplemented by a second one between Luchow (a Yangtze port above Chungking) and Kunming in Yunnan.

    1943, Hubert Freyn, “Szechwan and Sikang”, in Free China's New Deal, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 157

    Up every pass, through every ancient trail, for weeks and months, the Chinese had been trekking to the shelter of their government on the far side of the barrier. But now, of all the passes, none was more crowded than the great cleft which led two hundred and sixty miles from Liuchow, in Kwangsi, up to Kweiyang, the capital of Kweichou.

    1958, Theodore H. White, The Mountain Road, New York: William Sloane Associates, page 14

    In mid-November, the Japanese began to advance westward toward Kweiyang, Kunming, and Chungking. To stop this new and serious threat, General Wedemeyer requested General Sultan to transfer to him two of the American-trained and -equipped Chinese divisions advancing in Burma. These were promptly shipped north to China by air. Additional reinforcements were gathered from other parts of the front in China. These forces, strongly supported by the Fourteenth Air Force, counterattacked east at Kweiyang. This unexpectedly strong opposition finally stopped the Japanese advance.

    1963, Trevor Nevitt Dupy, Asiatic Land Battles: Allied Victories in China and Burma, New York: Franklin Watts, Linc., page 44

Origin

Borrowed from Mandarin 貴陽/贵阳 (Guìyáng).

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