Kaifeng

See also: kǎifēng, kāifēng, Kāifēng, and K'ai-feng

English

Alternative forms

(from Wade–Giles) Kai-feng, K'ai-feng, K'ai-fêng
(obsolete) Caifung, Caifum, Kae-fung, Kae-fung Foo

Etymology

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 開封／开封 (Kāifēng, “Opening Up the Borders”), named in the late 8th century BC by the Zhuang Duke of Zheng as he settled new territory.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaɪˈfʌŋ/

Proper noun

Kaifeng

A prefecture-level city on the Yellow River in Henan, China, a former national capital.
- 1938 June 18, “Profits on Slaughter”, in The Nation‎, volume 146, number 25, New York, page 686:
  After months of blundering, caused by underestimating Chinese resistance, the Japanese have finally thrown their full force into the drive. Kaifeng has fallen and the vital city of Chengchow is endangered.
- 1939 January, Lin Yu, “"The China Incident"”, in Philippine Magazine‎, volume XXXVI, number 1 (369), OCLC 27980103, page 211:
  Kaifeng was raided by the Chinese twice, who remained there long enough to smash up the Japanese puppet organizations. They also dislodged the Japanese from the nearby town of Tunghsu and disrupted the Lung-Hai Railway, cutting the Japanese line of supply to Kaifeng.
- 1979 January 7, “Wang Kuang-mei in jail”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XX, number 1, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 3:
  Liu, who was purged in a power struggle with Mao Tse-tung during the “cultural revolution,” died of pneumonia while being sent to Kaifeng by train several years after he was struggled down, according to mainland reports.
- 2012 July 12, McDonald, Joe, “China’s economic slowdown painful despite stimulus”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 18 May 2022:
  “A lot of people want to go work in big cities, but there is far less demand this year,” said a manager at the Tongxu County Enterprise Bureau, an employment service in the central city of Kaifeng in Henan province. He refused to give his name.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kaifeng.

Translations

city in east-central Henan

Chinese:
Cantonese: 開封, 开封 (hoi¹ fung¹)
Mandarin: 開封／开封 (zh) (Kāifēng)
Japanese: please add this translation if you can
Korean: please add this translation if you can

References

"Kaifeng—Ancient Capital" at China Internet Information Center, State Council Information Office of the PRC
“Kaifeng”, in Collins English Dictionary.
Kaifeng in Encyclopædia Britannica
“Kaifeng, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“Kaifeng”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Kaifeng at OneLook Dictionary Search
“Kaifeng” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.

Anagrams

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