Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Panyu.
Looking away from the city, the British troops gazed northwards into the famous White Cloud Mountains (Pai-yün-shan), which divided Nanhai and P’an-yü counties.
1966, Frederic Wakeman, Jr., Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 152 more examples
An extended biography of Ch'ü is not called for here, as enough is given in the record. Briefly, he was born about 1629 in the district of P'an-yü, Kuangtung Province, and was a young student when the forces of the Ming collapsed and the Manchu braves and their Chinese and Mongol allies overran the country, occupying Peking in 1644 and Canton in 1650.
1934 July, L. Carrington Goodrich, “The Posthumous Adventures of a Chinese Poet”, in The Open Court, volume XLVIII, number 930, New Orient Society of America, page 129The gentry of the thirteen rural areas of P'an-yü (Kwangtung) contributed funds and in 1777 built a kung-so (public meeting hall) in which a copy of the Sacred Edict was "reverentially kept" and where villagers old and young gathered to listen to the sermons.
1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, “Ideological Control: The Hsiang-yüeh and Other Institutions”, in Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century, University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 194
Origin
- Mandarin番禺
- EnglishP'an-yü
From Mandarin 番禺 (Pānyú) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻan¹-yü².
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