Chifeng

See also: chìfēng and Chìfēng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 赤峰 (Chìfēng).

Proper noun

Chifeng

1. A prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia, China.
   • [1973 May, Mino Yutaka, “Liao Dynasty Ceramics at China House Gallery New York”, in The Connoisseur‎^[1], volume 183, number 735, The National Magazine Company Limited, →ISSN, page 110, column 1:

     The ovoid six-lobed body, with elongated in-curved neck and round lip, is another of the common Liao types. This example is a primitive burnished earthenware with chattered vertical comb lines. It is related to the tradition of prehistoric Manchurian painted pottery from Ch’ih-feng (Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, part of the original Khitan territory).]

   • 2021 January 9, Amy Qin, Amy Chang Chien, “Officials Say Reports of New U.S. Coronavirus Variant Are Inaccurate”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 January 2021‎^[3]:

     More than 17 million people near Beijing are under stay-at-home orders. […]
     Chifeng, a city in the northern region of Inner Mongolia, announced on Friday that it was shifting to “wartime” footing after discovering that more than 3,600 people from the two Hebei cities had visited in recent days.

Synonyms

• Ulanhad

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 赤峰 (zh) (Chìfēng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can