Guiyang

• Kuei-yang (Wade–Giles)
• Kweiyang (Postal Romanization)

• enPR: gwāʹyängʹ^[1]

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貴陽 / 贵阳 (Guìyáng).

Guiyang

1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Guizhou, in southwestern China.
   • 1970, R. F. Price, “Part-time schools and classes”, in Brian Holmes, editor, Education in Communist China (World education series)‎^[2], New York, Washington: Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 218:

     In 1965 the NCNA reported the setting up of three ‘institutions of higher learning’ in Guiyang, Guizhou (Kweichow) Province.

   • [2015, Bill Porter, “The Miao [苗族]”, in South of the Clouds: Travels in Southwest China‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72:

     By early afternoon, I was in Kueiyang. Since this was the provincial capital of Kueichou, I decided to splurge and checked into the Plaza Hotel.]

   • 2017 July 27, Emily Rauhala, “Transgender Chinese man wins first-of-its-kind labor discrimination case”, in The Washington Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 November 2017, WorldViews‎^[5]:

     A court in the city of Guiyang ruled that Mr. C's employment rights were indeed violated. "The defendant terminated the contract with the plaintiff without a legitimate reason" and "infringed on the plaintiff’s equal employment rights," the ruling said. […]
     Mr. C, a transgender Chinese man who says he was fired for wearing men's clothes, stands outside a court in Guiyang, China, July 27, 2017, holding the court’s ruling that his dismissal violated his employment rights.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guiyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1469, column 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 桂陽 / 桂阳 (Guìyáng).

Guiyang

1. (historical) A former commandery of late imperial China.