Kuaiji

See also: kuàijì and Kuàijī

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 會稽 / 会稽 (Kuàijī).

Proper noun

Kuaiji

  1. A mountain near Shaoxing, Zhejiang, in China legendarily associated with Yu the Great.
    • 1988 August 31, Edward A. Gargan, “China's Heady and Heralded Yellow Wine From Shaoxing”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 December 2010, Home & Garden, page 3‎[2]:
      IN 240 B.C., Lu Buwei, the Prime Minister of China under the first Emperor of the Qin dynasty, directed the compilation of an encyclopedia of all that was known. Called the "Spring and Autumn Annals," the encyclopedia included myriad tales, this among them:
      "The King of Yue stopped at Kuaiji. There, he poured wine in the river. His men drank from the waters and then fought with a hundredfold more energy."
    • 2021 December 2, Wee Kek Koon, “How ancient Chinese wills protected the deceased’s family, and the contents of China’s original last will and testament”, in South China Morning Post‎[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 December 2021, Opinion‎[4]:
      Yu, the legendary king who founded China’s Xia dynasty, which supposedly existed from around 2070BC to 1600BC, told his ministers in his old age that after his death, he wished to be buried on the Kuaiji Mountain, which is around 150km (90 miles) southwest of Shanghai.
  2. (historical) A former Chinese commandery located around Hangzhou Bay.
  3. (historical) A former name of Suzhou and Shaoxing, held during their time as capital of the commandery.
  4. (historical) A former Chinese county around Shaoxing.

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