Hailufeng

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Mandarin 海陸豐海陆丰 (Hǎilùfēng). Doublet of Hai Lok Hong.

Proper noun

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Hailufeng

  1. Haifeng and Lufeng (two neighbouring county-level divisions in Shanwei, Guangdong, China).
    • Mar 1977, Rewi Alley, “Hainan the Island of Pearls”, in Eastern Horizon[1], volume XVI, number 3, Eastern Horizon Press, page 20:
      The people in this commune are Hakka, and the brigade leader came of a family which had emigrated from Hailufeng on the eastern Kwangtung coast five generations past.