Kuo-Yü

See also: kuòyú

English

Etymology

Wade–Giles

Proper noun

Kuo-Yü

  1. Alternative spelling of Guoyu
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 499:
      He had appealed to them in English, and a Chinese Inspector of Schools had addressed them in Kuo-Yü language as remote as the tongue of Caedmon to the impassive hearers.
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