gu

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proper noun

A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.

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Meanings

gu1

noungu (plural gus)

plural gus

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of gue (“Shetland fiddle”).
  2. alternativeAlternative form of gu. (“gules”).

GU2

noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of general user.
  2. abbreviationanatomyAbbreviation of genitourinary.

    GU — Had polyuria (large volumes every hour) yesterday; incontinent when paramedics arrived

    2009, Amy S. Nicholas, Holly S. Divine, “Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Ketoacidosis”, in Terry L. Schinghammer, Julia M. Koehler, editors, Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach, 7th edition, McGraw Hill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 79

Gu3

proper nounGu (countable and uncountable, plural Gus)

plural Gus · alternative Ku

  1. countableuncountableA county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.

    The comrades of Gu county said: From building a private house to sitting in jail, Xu Peng suffered the consequences of placing profit first as a result of his decadent bourgeois ideology.

    1985 July 22, “SHANXI INVESTIGATES ILLEGAL HOUSING CONSTRUCTION”, in China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119
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    According to the recent years study and productive practice of LV Centinula edodes of Gu county, Shanxi, the key techniques for spring cultivation of lentinula edodes?s high yield and good quality are put forward, including choosing suitable cultivation time , proper cultivars and making a good management during the colour-change and passing summer.

    中国农学通报

    2004, Li Yuemei [李月梅], “Key Techniques for Spring Cultivation of Lentinua Edodes?s High Yield and Good Quality [香菇春季栽培高产优质的关键管理技术]”, in Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin [中国农学通报], number 3, →DOI, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2024

    Nearly a decade on from its humiliation, Linfen is even trying to reinvent itself as a green city. Yang claimed solar energy had been introduced in hotels, guesthouses and “many households”—including his own. Small wind farms are planned for Linfen’s Puxian and Guxian counties. Some former factory owners have even branched out into “green landscaping.” Last year a seven-mile-long park opened on the banks of the River Fen, which flows through Linfen.

    [2012 October 25, Tom Phillips, “China’s Chernobyl Cleans Up Its Act”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2020

    A good illustration of this difference can be found by pulling statistics from a single prefecture level city and compare the gross domestic production per capita for two of the prefecture’s counties; in the publication 2010 Línfén tǒngjì niánjiàn (2010 临汾统计年鉴) the GDP per capita in Yonghe County is 5,632 RMB in 2009 while the GDP per capita in Gu County amounts to 47,933 RMB the same year. The two counties are only 188km apart, and yet the citizens under Gu County’s administration enjoy an income approximately 8.5 times higher than those under Yonghe County’s. One of the reasons for Gu County’s relative well developed economy may be its location approximately 51km from Linfen City, while the distance from Linfen City to Yonghe County roughly amounts to 165 km.

    2014, Benjamin Lillebrohus, Chinese Rural-Urban Difference in Opportunity of Obtaining Higher Education, University of Lund, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2017, page 9

Gu4

proper nounGu (plural Gus)

plural Gus · alternative Ku

  1. A surname from Chinese.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveof or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions

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Origin

Gu · proper noun

  1. Mandarin古
  2. EnglishGu

From Mandarin 古 (Gǔ).

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Gu · proper noun

From either Mandarin 谷 (Gǔ) or 古 (Gǔ), from Chinese.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 古
  • 古 (Gǔ)county
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