Kaiping

See also: Kāipíng and K'ai-p'ing

English

Alternative forms

K'ai-p'ing (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 開平／开平 (Kāipíng).

Pronunciation

enPR: kīʹpǐngʹ[1]

Proper noun

Kaiping

A county-level city in Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
- 1973 April 29, “More refugees from the mainland”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XIV, number 16, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
  A 24-year-old young man from Kaiping, Kwangtung was nearly drowned while swimming to Hongkong with his 23-year-old cousin last March 25.
- 2021 July 2, “Westfall Technik Acquires Multi-Site Consumer Packaging Molder CPP Global; Expands into North Carolina and China”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 18 May 2022:
  The deal greatly strengthens Westfall’s geographic footprint by adding its first plants in the southeastern United States, specifically in Mocksville and Asheboro, NC, as well in Kaiping, China, in Guangdong Province.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kaiping.

Synonyms

(from Cantonese) Hoi Ping, Hoiping, Hoi Peng, Hoipeng

Translations

city

Chinese:
Cantonese: 開平／开平 (hoi¹ ping⁴)

Mandarin: 開平／开平 (zh) (Kāipíng)
Japanese: please add this translation if you can

References

Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kaiping or K’ai-p’ing”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 895, column 2: “2 Town, Kwangtung prov., China: See HOIPING.”

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