Fenxi

Fenxi

See also: fēnxi and fēnxī

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 汾西.

Proper noun

Fenxi

1. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
   • 2000, Mu, Aiping, Vermilion Gate‎, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, OCLC 41620255, page 81:

     My grandmother did not hear from her beloved daughters again for a long time. Their communications stopped when the Japanese attacked Zhaocheng in April 1938 and their formation had to retreat to Fenxi county, in the Lüliang mountains.

   • 2013 September 4, Wong, Gillian, “China police say aunt likely gouged out boy’s eyes”, in AP News‎:

     Police in the city of Linfen in northern Shanxi province have identified the boy’s aunt Zhang Huiying as a suspect because the boy’s blood was found on her clothes, the official Xinhua News Agency said. […]
     One of the case investigators reached by phone, a police officer in Fenxi county surnamed Liu, referred only to the Xinhua report and refused to answer further questions, saying he was not authorized to speak to the media. Calls to the city and county’s police bureaus’ propaganda departments rang unanswered.

Translations

county

Chinese: Mandarin: 汾西 (zh) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• fixen