Langfang
See also: Lángfāng and Lángfáng
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 廊坊 (Lángfáng).
Proper noun
Langfang
- A prefecture-level city in Hebei, China.
- 1966, Sheridan, James E., Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, LCCN 65-18978, OCLC 929707858, OL 5947093M, page 63:
- While there he received a wire from Tuan Ch’i-jui, who was at that time Minister of War and Premier, ordering him to station the bulk of his troops in the vicinity of Langfang, about halfway between Peking and Tientsin.
- 2021 January 11, Jing Wang; Andrew Galbraith; Roxanne Liu; Lusha Zhang; Se Young Lee, “Another Chinese city goes into lockdown amid new COVID-19 threat”, in Michael Perry; Raju Gopalakrishnan; Sam Holmes, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 12 January 2021, Healthcare & Pharma:
- The city of Langfang in Hebei on Tuesday said its 4.9 million residents will be put under home quarantine for seven days and be subject to mass COVID-10 testing in the latest attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Two counties under Langfang’s jurisdiction that border Beijing, Guan and Sanhe, had already announced home quarantine measures.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Langfang.
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Translations
prefecture-level city
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