K'ai-feng
See also: kǎifēng, kāifēng, Kaifeng, and Kāifēng
English
Map including K'AI-FENG (DMA, 1975)
Etymology
From Mandarin 開封／开封 (Kāifēng), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-fêng¹.[1]
Proper noun
K'ai-feng
- Alternative form of Kaifeng
- 1975, John Winthrop Haeger, editor, Crisis and Prosperity in Sung China, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, LCCN 74-15603, OCLC 462184768, pages 61-62:
- The eastern part of the city of K'ai-feng and is adjacent rural area was under the hsien of K'ai-feng; the western part and its adjacent rural area under that of Hsiang-fu (at first called Chün-i).
- 1978, Yasushi Inoue, Jean Oda Moy, transl., Tun-huang, Kodansha International, →ISBN, LCCN 77-75969, OCLC 185528601, page xi:
- The main character, Chao Hsing-te, has gone to K'ai-feng to take his Palace Examination.
- 2011, Gary Schwartz, The Impulse Economy : Understanding Mobile Shoppers and What Makes Them Buy, Atria Books, →ISBN, LCCN 2011036957, OCLC 795772501, page 33:
- I was in China twenty years ago, filming a documentary on the last Chinese Jews of the old trading city K'ai-feng, located just south of Beijing.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:K'ai-feng.
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Translations
Kaifeng — see Kaifeng
References
- Kaifeng, Wade-Giles romanization K’ai-feng, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
- “K'ai-feng” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
Anagrams
- feaking