Kuye

name

name ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of Sakhalin: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

    "In December 1999, then--Chinese president Jiang Zemin (江澤民) and then-Russian president Boris Yeltsin signed a protocol in Beijing by which China ceded to Russia territories north of the Amur (Heilongjiang) River and south of the Stanovoy (or Outer Khingan) Range, lands east of the Ussuri River, the Tannu Urianhai region and Sakhalin (Kuye) Island."

Example

More examples

"In December 1999, then--Chinese president Jiang Zemin (江澤民) and then-Russian president Boris Yeltsin signed a protocol in Beijing by which China ceded to Russia territories north of the Amur (Heilongjiang) River and south of the Stanovoy (or Outer Khingan) Range, lands east of the Ussuri River, the Tannu Urianhai region and Sakhalin (Kuye) Island."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 庫頁 /库页 (Kùyè).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.