Guangshui

See also: Guǎngshuǐ

English

Alternative forms

• Kwangshui (Postal Romanization)
• Kuang-shui (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廣水／广水 (Guǎngshuǐ).

Proper noun

Guangshui

1. A county-level city in Suizhou, Hubei, in central China.
   • [1968, O. Edmund Clubb, “Armed Revolt”, in Communism in China, as Reported from Hankow in 1932‎^[1], Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 28:

     The area is one where the Reds have been strong for several years, and, allegedly reinforced by several thousand Reds, the revolting troops tore up some 30 li of railway track and occupied the whole area between Hsinyang and Wushengkuan, capturing Kuangshui.]

   • 2008 August, Yang Liu, Zheng-wang Zhang, Jian-qiang Li, Yu Zhang, Shan Lu, Xiang-feng Ruan, “A survey of the birds of the Dabie Shan range, central China”, in Forktail‎^[2], volume 24, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83, column 1:

     Besides habitat loss and alteration, poaching also gives cause for concern. Hunted males were observed for sale alongside Common Pheasant at a restaurant in Guangshui County, Hubei, in spring 2006.

2. A subdistrict in Guangshui, Suizhou, Hubei, central China.

Translations

a county-level city and a subdistrict in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廣水／广水 (zh) (Guǎngshuǐ)

• Japanese: 広水市
• Korean: 광수이 (gwangsu'i)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guangshui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1455, column 3