Sze Yap

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English

香港四邑商工總會
HONG KONG SZE YAP COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION

Etymology

From Cantonese 四邑 (sei3 jap1).

Proper noun

Sze Yap

  1. Synonym of Siyi.
    • 1925 October 28, “Chan's Allies”, in China Mail, number 19,635, →OCLC, page 1, column 3:
      Tang Pun-yan (the pro-Chan general now holding the southern peninsula of Kwangtung) is advancing by two routes to attack Kongmoon. Fighting has broken out at Yanping (in the Sze Yap districts).
    • 1961, Rose Hum Lee, “The Chinese in the United States of America”, in The China Quarterly, volume 6, page 170:
      I am of Sze Yap, not Sam Yap, origin. How could he have missed this vital point in my "thinly disguised family and life histories" and "personal vendetta"?
    • 1996, Nancy L. Fisher, editor, Cultural and Ethnic Diversity: A Guide for Genetics Professionals, The Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 87:
      The majority of early immigrants came from the province of Guangdong, in southern China. Within Guangdong province, the immigrants specifically came from the agriculturally based Sze Yap (Four Counties) region.