Panyu

Panyu

See also: panyu and Pānyú

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) P'an-yü

Etymology

From Mandarin 番禺 (Pānyú).

Proper noun

Panyu

1. A district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
   • 1976, 世界陶磁全集‎, volume 11, OCLC 11532378, page 335:

     Excavated from the tomb of Southern Han Dynasty at Panyu District, Kuangtung.

   • 2010 January 25, “Hundreds protest S.China project over pollution worries”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 05 May 2022, Environment:

     In recent months, authorities in southern Guangdong province have faced increasingly assertive protests by residents opposed to potentially high-polluting projects including plans for a waste incinerator in Guangzhou’s Panyu district that was eventually put off by authorities.

2. A former county of Guangdong, China.

Synonyms

• (postal romanization, from Cantonese) Punyu

Translations

a district and former county of China

Chinese: Cantonese: 番禺 (pun1 jyu4) Mandarin: 番禺 (zh) (Pānyú)

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