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Guilin
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Guìlín
English
Alternative forms
en Kuei-lin Wade-Giles
en Kweilin Postal
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1998 Blunden Caroline w:Mark Elvin Gazetteer Graham Speake Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File Checkmark Books 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 9770589M 232, 233 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/233/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Guilin/Kuei-lin/Gui/Guizhou 25°17′N 110°15′E, romanization of the en cmn 桂林 Laurel Forest Guìlín, with particular reference to the area's Cinnamomum cassia species.
Pronunciation
gwā′lĭn′Kweilin or Kuei-lin 999 1Kuei-lin or Kwei·lin 394 2
en
en Gui lin
Proper noun
en city ar/Guangxi c/China.
en 1978 Angus W. McDonald, Jr. Elites and the Mass Movement, 1926 The Urban Origins of Rural Revolution: Elites and the Masses in Hunan Province, China, 1911-1927 https://archive.org/details/urbanoriginsofru0000mcdo/ w:University of California Press 0-520-03228-4 76-7764 964311009 235 https://archive.org/details/urbanoriginsofru0000mcdo/page/235/ In early May, advance elements of Li Zong-ren’s Seventh Army of the Northern Expeditionary Force advanced from Guilin, securing Tang’s flanks and boosting his soldiers’ morale.
en 2001 Nancy Y.W. Tom World War II Fred Tom, son of Hawaiʻi https://archive.org/details/fredtomsonofhawa0000tomn/ 0-615-12033-4 50603296 36 https://archive.org/details/fredtomsonofhawa0000tomn/page/36/ In 1945, Tom was sent into remote Kueilin, Kwangsi Province where primitive conditions necessitated bathing in a small round bamboo tub just big enough to hold him. on
en 2005 w:Bill Clinton My Life (Clinton autobiography) My Life https://archive.org/details/mylifepresidenti00clin/ II New York w:Vintage Books 1-4000-9673-1 60594427 436–437 https://archive.org/details/mylifepresidenti00clin/page/436/ Before going home, we flew to Guilin for a meeting with environmentalists concerned about the destruction of forests and the loss of unique wildlife, and a leisurely boat trip down the Li River, which flows through a stunning landscape marked by large limestone formations that looked as if they had burst up through the landscape of the gentle countryside. After Guilin, we made a stop in Hong Kong to see Tung Chee-hwa, the chief executive chosen by the Chinese after the British left.
en 2015 Bill Porter Wuchou<t:zh 梧州> South of the Clouds: Travels in Southwest China https://archive.org/details/southofcloudstra0000port/ 978-1-61902-719-0 914195322 9 https://archive.org/details/southofcloudstra0000port/page/9/ The West River was formed by the confluence of two rivers: the Hsun, which led further west to Kuanghsi’s new provincial capital of Nanning, and the Lichiang (or Kueichiang), which led north to the province’s old capital of Kueilin. Summer rains lifted the level of both rivers by as much as twenty meters, and summer was the only time of the year that Kueilin could be reached by boat. on
Translations
a city in Guangxi, China
Arabic: ar غُويْلِين m ḡuylīn, ar جُويْلِين m guylīn
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 桂林 gwai3 lam4
Hokkien: nan-hbl 桂林 Kùi-lîm
Mandarin: cmn 桂林 Guìlín
Georgian: ka კუეილინი
Japanese: ja 桂林 けいりん, Keirin
Korean: ko ^구이린
Macedonian: mk Гу́јлин m
Manchu: mnc ᡤᡠᡳ ᠯᡳᠨ
Russian: ru Гуйли́нь m
Thai: th กุ้ยหลิน gûilĭn
Vietnamese: vi Quế Lâm
Zhuang: za Gveilinz
References
Further reading
en 2008 Guilin 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 1466 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1466/ 1
en 2-syllable words
Walloon
Pronunciation
wa /ɡi.lɛ̃/
Proper noun
wa proper noun
wa male fr:Ghislain