Kuling

Alternative form of Guling.

Proper noun

  1. Alternative form of Guling.
    • Kuling perched dramatically above a gorge of the Yangtze which could be seen far below, the view being rather like that from Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga or Murren in Switzerland, magnified several times. - 1971,...
    • My father put down his razor and straightened his face. "I've been meaning to tell you," he said. "We can't go to Peitaiho this summer, Jean. We'll be going to Kuling." I couldn't believe it. There he was with soap over...
    • In early December I came down the Yangtze from boarding school in Kuling, above the river port of Kiukiang. Kuling had already fallen to the National Army. The British ship on which I sailed was sandbagged on the upper...

Origin

The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 牯嶺/牯岭 (Gǔlǐng).