Kaying
English
Etymology
From Chinese 嘉應／嘉应, likely via Cantonese.
Proper noun
Kaying
- 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, 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.