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Gu
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Appendix: Variations of "gu"
English
Alternative forms
en Ku
Pronunciation
go͞o
Etymology 1
From en cmn 古 Gǔ.
Proper noun
~
en county prefecture-level city/Linfen province/Shanxi c/China.
en July 22, 1985 SHANXI INVESTIGATES ILLEGAL HOUSING CONSTRUCTION China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs https://books.google.com/books?id=Nc8sAAAAMAAJ 0891-351X 5397485 119 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.
en 2004 Li Yuemei<t:zh 李月梅> Key Techniques for Spring Cultivation of Lentinua Edodes?s High Yield and Good Quality<t:zh 香菇春季栽培高产优质的关键管理技术> Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin<t:zh 中国农学通报> https://web.archive.org/web/20250803214243/https://www.casb.org.cn/EN/10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.040369 3 August 2025 https://www.casb.org.cn/EN/10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.040369 3 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.040369 859253287 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.
en Oct. 25, 2012 Tom Phillips China’s Chernobyl Cleans Up Its Act https://web.archive.org/web/20201205153036/https://www.thedailybeast.com/chinas-chernobyl-cleans-up-its-act 05 December 2020 w:The Daily Beast 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. on
en 2014 Benjamin Lillebrohus Chinese Rural-Urban Difference in Opportunity of Obtaining Higher Education https://web.archive.org/web/20170817185032/https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=4689749&fileOId=4689759 17 August 2017 w:University of Lund 9 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.
Translations
county
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 古 Gǔ
Japanese: ja
Etymology 2
From either en cmn - 谷 Gǔ or 古 Gǔ, from en zh -.
Proper noun
s
en Chinese.
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Gu is the 6183rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5532 individuals. Gu is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (94.78%) individuals.
Further reading
Anagrams
en gu UG Ug ug
Central Mazahua
Pronunciation
maz /ɡʷ/
Letter
maz letter lower case gu
A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.
Chamorro
Letter
ch letter
ch letter 10
See also
Japanese
Romanization
ぐ
Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
nn proper noun
nn Gud God
nn 1947 O.J.Rise Oppdalsboka, bind 1 Ho Enøygd-Kari (...) såg ein gong ein tusskall som sat på ei låg (...) "Gakk i Guss namn no da", sa ho, og da gjekk han. The One-Eyed Kari (...) have seen once a Subterranean man sitting on a log (...) "Go now in God's name", she said, and then he went (away)
See also
nn gu