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Panyu
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panyu Pānyú
English
Panyu District
Alternative forms
en P'an-yü Wade-Giles
Etymology
From en cmn 番禺.
Pronunciation
en /ˌpænˈju/ /ˌpɑn-/
pän′yü′Punyü 1449 3 Punyü (po͞on′yü′), Mandarin P’an-yü (pän′yü′),Punyü was the official name applied 1913–35 to CANTON and 1935–46 to Suntso, Mandarin Hsin-tsao. Present Punyü was called Shikiu, Mandarin Shih-ch’iao, until it became co. ☉ in 1946.
en Pan yu
Proper noun
en district prefecture-level city/Guangzhou p/Guangdong c/China.
en 1976 世界陶磁全集 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=6XvrAAAAMAAJ 11532378 335 Excavated from the tomb of Southern Han Dynasty at Panyu District, Kuangtung.
en JANUARY 25, 2010 James Pomfret Hundreds protest S.China project over pollution worries Ken Wills https://web.archive.org/web/20220505210149/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pollution/hundreds-protest-s-china-project-over-pollution-worries-idUSTRE60O10K20100125 05 May 2022 w:Reuters Environment In recent months, authorities in southern Guangdong province have faced increasingly assertive protests by residents opposed to potentially high-polluting projects including plans for a waste incinerator in Guangzhou’s Panyu district that was eventually put off by authorities.
en former county p/Guangdong c/China.
Synonyms
en Punyu Postal Romanization from Cantonese
Translations
a district and former county of China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 番禺
Mandarin: cmn 番禺
Vietnamese: vi Phiên Ngung
References
Further reading
Panyu, P'an-yu, Pan-yu, Punyu
en 1998 Panyu Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2359 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2359/ 1
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