Xinfeng

See also: xìnfèng, xìnfēng, xīnfèng, Xīnfēng, and xīnfēng

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin[1] 新豐／新丰 (Xīnfēng).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɪnˈfɛŋ/, /ʃin-/, /-ˈfʌŋ/
  • enPR: shĭn′fŭng′[1]
  • Hyphenation: Xin‧feng

Proper noun

Xinfeng

  1. A county of Shaoguan, Guangdong, China.
  2. A rural township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan.
    • 2013 March 27, “43 Vietnamese stowaways found off Hsinchu”, in Focus Taiwan‎[1], archived from the original on 21 June 2023, Society‎[2]:
      Taiwan's Coast Guard found a drifting vessel with 43 Vietnamese stowaways on board off Xinfeng Township in Hsinchu County, a Coast Guard spokesman said Wednesday.
    • 2019 May 15, Liao Hsueh-ju, Sherry Hsiao, “Hsinchu exhibits Max Liu”, in Taipei Times‎[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 May 2019, Taiwan News, page 4‎[4]:
      Cohosted by the Max Liu Culture and Art Foundation, the exhibition in Hsinchu County’s Xinfeng Township (新豐) features a range of Liu’s works, from self-portraits to paintings of the Po Yo Bird (婆憂鳥), Liu’s bird invention that is common in his work and based on a story told to him by his grandmother.

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Sunfung”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1844, column 3: “Sunfung (sŭn′fo͝ong′),Mandarin Hsin-feng (shĭn′fŭng′), […] Until 1914 called Chongming.”

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