Gangwei

See also: gǎngwèi

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 港尾 (Gǎngwěi).

Proper noun

Gangwei

  1. A town in Longhai, Zhangzhou, Fujian, China, formerly a township.
    • 1990, Daily Report: China, numbers 100-109, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 67, column 1:
      Also on 30 April, Trawler No. 1107 of Jinyu Island, Gangwei Town, Longhai County, Zhangzhou City was fishing a few nautical miles off Penghu Island when it was forcibly towed away by a KMT gunboat. The 16 crew members on board were detained for seven days by the garrisoned troops and were only released on 8 May.
    • 2012 October, Qian Liu, Jin-Hai Yu, Qin Wang, Bin Su, Mei-Fu Zhou, Hai Xu, Xiang Cui, “Ages and geochemistry of granites in the Pingtan–Dongshan Metamorphic Belt, Coastal South China: New constraints on Late Mesozoic magmatic evolution”, in Lithos, volume 150, →DOI, →ISSN, page 277:
      The Shenwo gneissic granite (DS-24-2) in the Gangwei area, south of Xiamen, belongs to the southern PDMB.
    • 2013 July 20, “Cimaron brings heavy rains to Fujian”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on July 20, 2013:
      An entrance guard clears mud at the gate of government of Gangwei Township in Longhai of Zhangzhou City, southeast China's Fujian Province, July 19, 2013.
    • 2017, Koos Kuiper, quoting De Grijs, The Early Dutch Sinologists (1854-1900), Brill Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 188:
      [] we left Amoy at Four, arrived near Kang Beh [Gangwei 港尾] at 5 1⁄2, and walked Sunday morning before breakfast to the hot springs; []

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