Guangzhou

Guāngzhōu Guǎngzhōu English Alternative forms en GUZ initialism en Kuang-chou Wade-Giles en Kwang-chow en Kwangchow Etymology Mid 20th c., from the en cmn-pinyin - "the Pinyin transliteration of the Chinese name for Canton" (Archived) romanization of the en cmn 廣州 expansive district [capital] Guǎngzhōu. Pronunciation en /ˈkwɑŋˈt͡ʃoʊ/ GA unaspirated en /kwæŋˈt͡ʃəʊ/ RP unaspirated en /ˈɡwɑŋˈd͡ʒoʊ/ GA,hyperforeign en /ɡwæŋˈdʒəʊ/ RP,hyperforeign gwäng′jō′ hyperforeignCanton 326 1: "Guangzhou geographical name Guang·​zhou ˈgwäŋ-ˈjō" en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Guangzhou.wav Southern England en əʊ 2 en Guang zhou Proper noun en Q16572en major preflcity/and/port/caplc p/Guangdong in southeastern c/China. en 1975 Janet Goldwasser; Stuart Dowty Of Chivas Regal and Mao Tse-tung Huan-Ying: Worker's China https://archive.org/details/huanyingworkersc0000gold/ New York w:Monthly Review Press 0-85345-337-3 74-7790 471721488 15 https://archive.org/details/huanyingworkersc0000gold/page/15/ The Chinese side of the border, Shumchun, is a long building—a combination reception house, customs office, and dining facility. We were guided down corridors, past dining rooms crowded with businessmen noisily enjoying lunch before the train for Guangzhou pulled out. en 2013 w:Al Gore Outgrowth The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change https://archive.org/details/futuresixdrivers0000gore_k5o2/ New York w:Random House 978-0-8129-9294-6 2012039890 827202765 163–164 https://archive.org/details/futuresixdrivers0000gore_k5o2/page/163/ As a result, decisions to clean up the environment are routinely—and inaccurately—described as hurtful to prosperity. For example, in Guangzhou, China, the vice director of the city’s planning agency felt forced to defend a decision to limit automobile traffic as a means of reducing dangerous levels of air pollution by saying, “Of course from the government’s point of view, we give up some growth, but to achieve better health for all citizens, it’s worth it.” en https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/19/chinas-goths-protest-after-woman-told-to-remove-distressing-make-up-on-subway China's goths protest after woman told to remove 'distressing' make-up on subway 19 March 2019 Hannah Ellis-Petersen The Guardian In a post on Chinese social media site Weibo, the woman, who remains unnamed, recounted how subway security in the southern city of Guangzhou had stopped her from travelling because of her heavy eye make-up and dark lipstick. en December 15, 2021 Amy Cheng Chinese officials axed for cutting down thousands of trees after Xi Jinping signals disapproval w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20211215075531/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/15/china-xi-kill-banyan-trees-guangzhou/ 15 December 2021 0190-8286 2269358 Asia Ten officials from Guangzhou have been disciplined after thousands of banyan trees, a mainstay of the southern Chinese city’s landscape, were cut down. The decision, announced over the weekend, was likely to have been approved by President Xi Jinping, who made an unusual intervention to signal his displeasure, experts said.Li Xi, the Communist Party chief in Guangdong, the province in which Guangzhou is located, told state media Sunday that the tree removal “gravely damaged the city’s natural ecological environment” and “hurt the public’s fond memories and feelings.” Li added that local officials should realize that Xi paid significant attention to Guangzhou and recognize the severity of the problem. en Synonyms en Canton obsolete en Kwang-chow Foo Derived terms en Guangzhouese Translations Chinese city Arabic: ar قْوَانْغْتْشُو m, ar غْوَانْغْجُو m Hijazi Arabic: acw قوانقجو f gwāngjō Bulgarian: bg Гуанджо́у m Burmese: my ကွမ်ကျိုးမြို့ Chinese: Cantonese: yue 廣州 gwong2 zau1 Hakka: hak 廣州 Kóng-chû Hokkien: nan-hbl 廣州 Kńg-chiu, Kúiⁿ-chiu Mandarin: cmn 廣州 Guǎngzhōu Chinese Sign Language: csl OpenB@SideAbdomenhigh-PalmUp-OpenB@SideAbdomenhigh-PalmUp Contact Czech: cs Kanton m Farefare: gur Koosjuu, gur Kantɔn, gur Kanton, gur Guansuu Finnish: fi Kanton, fi Guangzhou French: fr Canton m, fr Guangzhou m German: de Guangzhou n, de Kanton n formerly Greek: el Καντώνα f Hebrew: he גואנגג׳ואו Hindi: hi ग्वांगझोउ f Hungarian: hu Kanton, hu Kuangcsou Italian: it Canton f Japanese: ja 広州 こうしゅう, Kōshū Kazakh: kk Гуаңжоу Khmer: km ក្វាងចូវ Korean: ko 광저, ko 광주(廣州), ko 광저우 Macedonian: mk Гуангџоу Manchu: mnc ᡤᡠᠸᠠᠩ ᠵᡝᠣ, mnc ᡤᡠᠸᠠᠩᠵᡝᠣ Persian: fa گوانگ‌ژو gwâng-žu, fa خانفو xânfuû formally Polish: pl Kanton m-in Portuguese: pt Cantão f, pt Guangzhou f Russian: ru Гуанчжо́у m, ru Канто́н m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Гуангџоу m, sh Ка̀нтон m Latin: sh Guangzhou m, sh Kànton m Spanish: es Cantón m Swedish: sv Kanton n, sv Guangzhou n Thai: th กว่างโจว Gwàangjoh Turkish: tr Guanco Urdu: ur گوانگژو gvāṅgźo Uyghur: ug گۇاڭجۇ Vietnamese: vi Quảng Châu (vi 廣州) Zhuang: za Gvangjcouh See also Guangdong en Cantonese References Further reading Guangzhou, Kwangchow, Kuang-chou, Kwang-chow pn en 2008 Guangzhou Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1455-1456 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1455/ French fr: Alternative forms fr Quang-cheu obsolete Etymology fr :bor cmn-pinyin:- fr cmn-pinyin -. Pronunciation Gouangdjow Gouangjow Gouangzou Proper noun f fr Guangzhou Q16572 fr Canton fr Guangdong See also fr cantonais Portuguese pt: Etymology pt :bor cmn-pinyin:- + 1 Proper noun f pt Guangzhou Q16572 pt Cantão