Fengshan
See also: fēngshàn, Feng-shan, and Fēngshān
English
Etymology
From the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 鳳山 (Fêng⁴-shan¹).
Proper noun
Fengshan
- A county of Hechi, Guangxi, China
- Alternative form of Fongshan
- 1931, Hosea Ballou Morse, Harley Farnsworth MacNair, Far Eastern International Relations, Houghton Mifflin Company, OCLC 494661972, page 275:
- In April, 1868, a mob destroyed the Roman Catholic and (English) Protestant churches at Fengshan, in Formosa, the exciting cause being a report that the missionaries were administering a poisonous drug in secret doses to win Formosa converts.
- 1973 August 12, “Cabinet okays budget for freeway”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 31, Taipei, OCLC 4458630, page 1:
- Scheduled to be completed in three stages by 1978, the freeway will link Keelung on the north coast of Taiwan near Taipei with Fengshan near the seaport of Kaohsiung, in southwest Taiwan.[...]
Construction will get under way in May next for the 55-kilometer (33-mile) section between Tainan and Fengshan and in January 1976 for still another section between Hsinchu and Taichung, in central Taiwan.
- 2022 May 27, P. Hsu, “Rising Number of Kaohsiung Police Officers Infected 高雄警界確診攀升 鳳山分局逾60人染疫”, in Public Television Service:
- Police are of course not immune to the disease, with over 400 of them coming down with COVID in Kaohsiung City. […]
In addition to the police, Fengshan is currently the district with the largest number of confirmed cases in Kaohsiung.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Fengshan.
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Translations
Fongshan — see Fongshan