Kaying

English

Etymology

From Chinese 嘉應嘉应, likely via Cantonese.

Proper noun

Kaying

  1. A former prefecture of Guangdong, China; now Meizhou.
    • 1940, John Joseph Considine, When the Sorghum Was High: A Narrative Biography of Father A. Donovan of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, A Maryknoll Missioner Slain by Bandits in Manchukuo, Longmans, Green and Co., page 181:
      Four of the Maryknoll territories are in South China, the Vicariates of Kongmoon, Wuchow and Kaying and the Prefecture of Kweilin.
    • 1990, Albert J. Nevins, American Martyrs: From 1542, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., →ISBN, LCCN 86-84002, OCLC 17771414, page 139-141:
      In 1925, the Paris society offered Maryknoll another territory in the northeast corner of Kwangtung Province, inhabited by Hakka-speaking people. Father Ford was put in charge, picking Kaying, the Hakka cultural center, as his own main base, and set about developing the area.
    • 1994, Nicole Constable, Christian Souls and Chinese Spirits: A Hakka Community in Hong Kong, University of California, →ISBN, page 36:
      Interestingly, Nakagawa cites a Chinese translation of Campbell that was published in 1951 by the Perak Public Association of the Hakkas and also in 1923 in Kaying, translated by a Hakka of Meixian district.
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