Kweiyang

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 貴陽／贵阳 (Guìyáng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: gwāʹyängʹ

Proper noun

Kweiyang

1. Dated form of Guiyang.
   • 1943, Hubert Freyn, “Szechwan and Sikang”, in Free China's New Deal‎^[1], New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 157:

     To the south, the original road from Chungking to Kweiyang in Kweichow has been supplemented by a second one between Luchow (a Yangtze port above Chungking) and Kunming in Yunnan.

   • 1958, Theodore H. White, The Mountain Road‎^[2], New York: William Sloane Associates, page 14:

     Up every pass, through every ancient trail, for weeks and months, the Chinese had been trekking to the shelter of their government on the far side of the barrier. But now, of all the passes, none was more crowded than the great cleft which led two hundred and sixty miles from Liuchow, in Kwangsi, up to Kweiyang, the capital of Kweichou.

   • 1963, Trevor Nevitt Dupy, Asiatic Land Battles: Allied Victories in China and Burma‎^[3], New York: Franklin Watts, Linc., page 44:

     In mid-November, the Japanese began to advance westward toward Kweiyang, Kunming, and Chungking. To stop this new and serious threat, General Wedemeyer requested General Sultan to transfer to him two of the American-trained and -equipped Chinese divisions advancing in Burma. These were promptly shipped north to China by air. Additional reinforcements were gathered from other parts of the front in China. These forces, strongly supported by the Fourteenth Air Force, counterattacked east at Kweiyang. This unexpectedly strong opposition finally stopped the Japanese advance.

   • 1975 May 25, “Turmoil on mainland”, in Free China Weekly‎^[4], volume XVI, number 20, Taipei, page 3:

     Another poster which appeared in Kweiyang City in southern China March 25, says that Kweichow Province has become a “world of coupons.”

Further reading

• “Kweiyang, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Kweiyang”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Kweiyang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.