Meanings
proper noun
- Synonym of Panyu.
Zhuang grew up in Punyu, an impoverished town outside Guangzhou. No one in Punyu could afford a table tennis table.
2014, Nicholas Griffin, Ping-Pong Diplomacy, Simon & Schuster, published 2015, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1131 more example
The 78-year-old married informant was from Fo Chyun in Punyu, one in a cluster of villages centering on the market town of Loh Gong. All villages in the cluster shared the same surname.
1989, Janice E. Stockard, Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860-1930, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 16Synonyms: Panyu
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Panyu.
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Origin
From Cantonese 番禺 (pun1 jyu4).
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Punyu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Punyu
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