Kaiyuan is a word from Chinese phonetic alphabet (

pinyin Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin' ...

) with multiple meaning due to different forms of

Chinese characters Chinese characters are logographs used Written Chinese, to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Of the four independently invented writing systems accepted by scholars, they represe ...

. It may refer to:

Places

Kaiyuan, Liaoning Kaiyuan () is a county-level city in the northeast of Liaoning, People's Republic of China, bordering Jilin for a small section to the north. It is under the administration of Tieling City, the centre of which lies to the southwest. Administra ...

(开原), a county-level city in Liaoning, China *

Kaiyuan, Yunnan Kaiyuan () is a county-level city within the jurisdiction of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the southeast of Yunnan province, China. Geography The maximum sea level of Kaiyuan is 2,775.6 meters and the minimum is 950 meters. It borde ...

(开远), a county-level city in Yunnan *

Kaiyuan Subdistrict, Xiamen Kaiyuan Subdistrict () is a subdistrict of Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. It covers an area of and has a registered population of 63,362. It is located in central Xiamen Island, north of the original Siming ...

(开元街道), a subdistrict in Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian **

Kaiyuan District Kaiyuan Subdistrict () is a subdistrict of Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian Fujian is a provinces of China, province in East China, southeastern China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, an ...

(开元区), former district in Xiamen, Fujian * Kaiyuan, Shulan (开原镇), town in

Shulan Shulan ( zh, s=舒兰 , t=舒蘭 , p=Shūlán) is a county-level city in northern Jilin province, Northeast China. It falls under the administration of Jilin City, to the south-southwest. Administrative divisions Shulan is divided into 5 subd ...

, Jilin * Kaiyuan, Dingzhou (开元, 镇), in

Dingzhou Dingzhou, or Tingchow in Postal Map Romanization, and formerly called Ding County or Dingxian, is a county-level city in the prefecture-level city of Baoding, Hebei, Hebei Province. As of 2020, Dingzhou had a population of 1.1 million. Dingzhou ...

Other uses

Kaiyuan era Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (; 8 September 685 – 3 May 762), personal name Li Longji, was an emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, reigning from 712 to 756. His reign of 44 years was the longest during the Tang dynasty. Through two palace coup ...

(713-741), early in the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty * ''

Kaiyuan Za Bao ''Kaiyuan Za Bao'', or ''Kaiyuan Chao Bao'', ''Bulletin of the Court'', was an official publication which first appeared in the 8th century, during the Kaiyuan era. It has been described as the first Chinese newspaper or official gazette, and a ...

'', the Tang Dynasty's official publication during the Kaiyuan era * Kaiyuan coin, a standard coin of the Tang Dynasty * Kaiyuan Temple (disambiguation) (开元寺), the name of various Chinese temples {{disambig, geo