Panyu

See also: panyu and Pānyú

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Etymology

From Mandarin 番禺 (Pānyú).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌpænˈju/, /ˌpɑn-/
  • enPR: pän′yü′[1]
  • Hyphenation: Pan‧yu

Proper noun

Panyu

  1. A district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
    • 1976, 世界陶磁全集‎[1], volume 11, →OCLC, page 335:
      Excavated from the tomb of Southern Han Dynasty at Panyu District, Kuangtung.
    • 2010 January 25, James Pomfret, “Hundreds protest S.China project over pollution worries”, in Ken Wills, editor, Reuters‎[2], archived from the original on 05 May 2022, Environment‎[3]:
      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.
  2. A former county of Guangdong, China.

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  1. ^ Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Punyü”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1449, column 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.”

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