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Guiping
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Guìpíng
English
Alternative forms
en Kuei-p'ing Wade-Giles
en Kweiping dated
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.Guiping/Kuei-p'ing/Xun/Xunzhou zh 潯州 23°20′N 110°04′E, romanization of en cmn 桂平.
Pronunciation
gwā′pĭng′Kweiping or Kuei-p’ing 999 1 Until 1913 called Sünchow zh 潯州.
en Gui ping
Proper noun
en county-level city ar/Guangxi c/China.
en 2010 Bernice A. Verbyla News from Kwangsi Aunt Mae's China: This is the Story of Beatrice Mae Tonkin https://archive.org/details/auntmaeschinathi0000verb_b9k3/ w:Xulon Press 978-1-60957-456-7 874135051 132 https://archive.org/details/auntmaeschinathi0000verb_b9k3/page/132/ There was a battle at Kueiping just before the ladies came down. The buildings were hit but no one was hurt. Fighting is still going on in various places along the West River. on
en 2016 Bill Lascher "Why Should I Contribute a Little More Trash?" Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two World War II Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pacific https://archive.org/details/eveofhundredmidn0000lasc/ 1st William Morrow and Company William Morrow 978-0-06-237520-9 922910401 31 https://archive.org/details/eveofhundredmidn0000lasc/page/31/ Once their boat reached Tai Hong Kwong, a village alongside a sharp bend in the Pearl River north of Kweiping (Guiping), Ka Yik led his American friends down the muddy, narrow streets to a shop belonging to his father.
en 19 August 2013 Death toll from weekend flooding, landslides passes 100 w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20131024092636/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1297826/landslides-bury-vehicles-guangxi October 24, 2013 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1297826/landslides-bury-vehicles-guangxi 1563-9371 648902513 China An officer with the Guiping city traffic police said six vehicles were covered in mud and rocks, but it wasn’t clear how many people were inside them.
en July 15, 2021 Ben Westcott Unvaccinated people in parts of China to be denied access to hospitals, parks and schools https://web.archive.org/web/20210716025250/https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/15/china/vaccine-china-restrictions-zhejiang-jiangxi-intl-hnk/index.html 16 July 2021 w:CNN In Guangxi, two cities -- Guiping and Beiliu -- both said students would not be allowed to go to school unless both of their parents were fully vaccinated. After vocal opposition on social media, the notices were deleted although it is unclear if the restrictions will still apply.
Translations
county-level city of Guangxi, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 桂平 gwai3 ping4
Mandarin: cmn 桂平 Guìpíng
References
Further reading
en 2008 Guiping 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 1468 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1468/ 2