K'ai-p'ing
See also: Kaiping and Kāipíng
English
Map including K'ai-p'ing (DMA, 1975)
Etymology
From Mandarin 開平／开平 (Kāipíng), Wade-Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-pʻing².
Proper noun
K'ai-p'ing
- Alternative form of Kaiping
- 1978, William L. Parish, Village and Family in Contemporary China, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, LCCN 78-3411, OCLC 3730442, page 26:
- In addition to the language difference between the two major ethnic groups, there are differences among the Cantonese themselves. For example, people in four counties to the southwest of Canton—in T'ai-shan, K'ai-p'ing, Hsin-hui, and En-p'ing counties—speak a version of Cantonese which is almost unintelligible to residents of Canton.
- 1984, Yuen-fong Woon, Social Organization in South China, 1911-1949: The Case of the Kuan Lneage of Kʻai-pʻing County, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, →ISBN, LCCN 84-3164, OCLC 470617716, page 21:
- The seat of K'ai-p'ing County is 104 miles southwest of Canton. It is one of the four adjacent hsien lying to the west of the Pearl River delta, a region that has sent thousands of its residents to North America.
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Translations
Kaiping — see Kaiping