Gaoyou

English

Alternative forms

• Kaoyu (Postal Romanization)
• Kao-yu (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高郵／高邮 (Gāoyóu).

Proper noun

Gaoyou

1. A county-level city in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, in eastern China.
   • [1978, Charles O. Hucker, The Ming Dynasty, its Origins and Evolving Institutions‎^[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:

     Among the rebel leaders who appeared in the Huai area after the 1351 floods was a more ambitious man than Fang Kuo-chen, named Chang Shih-ch'eng 張士誠 (1321-1367). Like Fang, Chang had a salt trade background. Native to the Kao-yu region of modern Kiangsu province, north of the Yangtze, Chang and his brothers grew up as canal boatmen employed by the state salt monopoly.]

   • 2007 July 4, “Tornado kills 14, injures 146 in eastern China”, in Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 23 January 2016, Green Business‎^[3]:

     Seven people were killed in Gaoyou city in neighboring Jiangsu province, the agency said, adding that 53 were injured.
     "Winds and heavy rain cut off power and telecommunications, ripped off rooftops and uprooted thousands of trees," a Gaoyou government official was quoted as saying.

Translations

county-level city in eastern China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高郵／高邮 (zh) (Gāoyóu)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Gaoyou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1317, column 2