Jump to content

Fengle

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Mandarin 豐樂丰乐 (Fēnglè).

Proper noun

[edit]

Fengle

  1. A subdistrict of Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China.
    • 2003 March 25, Yan Tan, Yi Qian Wang, “Rural resettlement and land compensation in flooded areas: The case of the Three Gorges Project, China”, in Asia Pacific Viewpoint[1], volume 44, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      For this purpose, the peri-urban zone in Kaixian County of the Chongqing reservoir section [] These construction workers, mostly carpenters and tillers, are mainly from Fengle.
    • 2008, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal[2], volume 17, Scalabrini Migration Center, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21:
      Fuji town, a peri-urban area of the new county seat of Luxian, received 81 migrant households (276 persons) from Fengle town (a peri-urban district of Kaixian county).
    • 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine[3], Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 297–298:
      In Sichuan the rates were much higher. In Kaixian county, a close examination by a team sent by the provincial party committee at the time concluded that in Fengle commune, where 17 per cent of the population had perished in less than a year, up to 65 per cent of the victims had died because they were beaten, punished with food deprivation or forced into committing suicide.
    • 2021 March, Jinfang Sun, Xingzhong Yuan, Hong Liu, Guodong Liu, “Emergy and eco-exergy evaluation of wetland reconstruction based on ecological engineering approaches in the three Gorges Reservoir, China”, in Ecological Indicators[4], volume 122, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      To make full use of the ecological opportunities and minimize the adverse effects brought by the water-level fluctuation zone, a regulating dam of 507 m long and 24 m high was built in Wuyang village, Fengle town of Kaizhou city, which is downstream of the new city.
  2. A town in Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.

Translations

[edit]