P'an-yü

See also: Panyu

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 番禺 (Pānyú) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻan¹-yü².

Proper noun

P'an-yü

  1. Alternative form of Panyu
    • 1934 July, Goodrich, L. Carrington, “The Posthumous Adventures of a Chinese Poet”, in The Open Court, volume XLVIII, number 930, New Orient Society of America, page 129:
      An extended biography of Ch'ü is not called for here, as enough is given in the record. Briefly, he was born about 1629 in the district of P'an-yü, Kuangtung Province, and was a young student when the forces of the Ming collapsed and the Manchu braves and their Chinese and Mongol allies overran the country, occupying Peking in 1644 and Canton in 1650.
    • 1966, Wakeman, Jr., Frederic, Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15:
      Looking away from the city, the British troops gazed northwards into the famous White Cloud Mountains (Pai-yün-shan), which divided Nanhai and P’an-yü counties.
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