Panyu
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- P'an-yü (Wade–Giles)
- Punyu (Postal Romanization, from Cantonese)
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Panyu
- A district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
- 2010 January 25, James Pomfret, “Hundreds protest S.China project over pollution worries”, in Ken Wills, editor, Reuters[2], archived from the original on 05 May 2022, Environment[3]:
- 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.
- A former county of Guangdong, China.
Translations
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Panyu, P'an-yu, Pan-yu, Punyu at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Panyu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2359, column 1