Kuye
See also: küye
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 庫頁／库页 (Kùyè).
Proper noun
Kuye
- Synonym of Sakhalin: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
- 2011 July 29, Kuo, Cheng-deng 郭正典, “No legal evidence, no sovereignty”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 16 March 2013:
- In December 1999, then--Chinese president Jiang Zemin (江澤民) and then-Russian president Boris Yeltsin signed a protocol in Beijing by which China ceded to Russia territories north of the Amur (Heilongjiang) River and south of the Stanovoy (or Outer Khingan) Range, lands east of the Ussuri River, the Tannu Urianhai region and Sakhalin (Kuye) Island.
- 2019 June 12, Khrushcheva, Nina L., “Should Russia hug China?”, in Japan Times, archived from the original on 12 June 2019, Opinion:
- As for Heihe, it got rich a quarter-century ago, after capitalizing on Russia’s post-Soviet disarray to sell cheap goods to then-starving Russians. Its own history museum presents the Cossacks as “hairy barbarians” (Lao Maozi) and lists the towns of Russia’s Far East by their historical Chinese names: Blagoveshchensk is Hailanpao, Vladivostok is Haishenwai and Sakhalin is Kuye.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kuye.
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Translations
island
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