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K'ai-yüan
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kāiyuán Kaiyuan
English
Etymology 1
From en cmn 開原 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Kʻai¹-yüan².
Proper noun
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en Kaiyuan.
en 1910 Alexander Hosie Manchuria: Its People, Resources and Recent History https://archive.org/details/manchuriaitspeop00hosi/ 14 J. B. Millet Company 14689904 231 https://archive.org/details/manchuriaitspeop00hosi/page/231/ We left Kirin at 10 A.M. on the 28th of January on our return to the port. Instead of retracing our steps by way of K’uan-ch’êng-tzŭ w^e resolved to follow the imperial highroad, which runs south-west from Kirin and joins the main road a little to the south of K’ai-yüan Hsien.
en 1912 Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea https://archive.org/details/northernchinaval00madr/ Hachette & Company 58389296 259 https://archive.org/details/northernchinaval00madr/page/259/ https://books.google.com/books?id=lkNMAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA259 At the height of the power of the Ch’i-tan Liao, the latter, having taken prisoners people of various countries, deported them and distributed them about this region between the Sungari and the K’ai-yüan Hsien country.
en 1944 Martin R. Norins Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West https://archive.org/details/gatewaytoasiasin00nori/ w:John Day Company 551221244 38 https://archive.org/details/gatewaytoasiasin00nori/page/38/ Born in K’ai-yüan county of Liaoning, Manchuria, in 1893, Sheng Shih-ts’ai had been reared "in a small family" and amid conditions of "poverty" and "cold."
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Further reading
en 1952 Kaiyüan or K’ai-yüan Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 896 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/896/ 1
Etymology 2
From en cmn 開遠 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Kʻai¹-yüan³.Kaiyuan, Wade-Giles romanization K’ai-yüan, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Proper noun
1 1
en Kaiyuan.
References
Further reading
en 1952 Kaiyüan or K’ai-yüan Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 896 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/896/ 1