Fukang
See also: Fùkāng
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Fu-k'ang
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fuːˈkæŋ/, /fuːˈkɑŋ/
Proper noun
Fukang
- A county-level city in Changji, Xinjiang, China.
- 1927, Cable, Mildred; Francesca French, Through Jade Gate and Central Asia, Hodder and Stoughton, published 1937, OCLC 949900543, page 255:
- Leaving the little "hsien" city of Fukang—"The Mound of Peace"—we realised with delight that only one more night in an inn lay between us and the Mission Compound in Urumchi, where we should find a bed, sheets, bathing facilities in the place of the small tin basin which we carried, and the possibilities of getting our clothes washed.
- 1943, China at War, volume 10-11, China Information Publishing Company, OCLC 1554305, page 29:
- Another mountain lake at Fukang will be tapped to water 45,000 mow of nothern Sinkiang farms.
- 2014 July 15, Blanchard, Ben, “Chinese city bans, destroys matches to fight terror”, in Michael Urquhart, editor, Reuters, Emerging Markets:
- Fukang, which sits near regional capital Urumqi, decided to remove all matches from circulation to ensure they are not used by “terrorist groups or individual extremists to carry out criminal activities”, the People’s Daily said on its website.
Police destroyed 20,223 boxes of matches, which will ensure that the city maintains its current peaceful environment, the newspaper added, citing the local government.
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Synonyms
- Fou-k'ang
Translations
city in Xinjiang, China
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