Panyu
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English
Alternative forms
- P'an-yü (Wade–Giles)
- Punyu (Postal Romanization, from Cantonese)
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Panyu
- A district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
- 1976, 世界陶磁全集, 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, archived from the original on 05 May 2022, 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.
- A former county of Guangdong, China.
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Further reading
- Panyu, P'an-yu, Pan-yu, Punyu at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Panyu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2359, column 1