Lai-feng
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 來鳳/来凤 (Láifèng), Wade-Giles romanization: Lai²-fêng⁴.
Proper noun
[edit]- Alternative form of Laifeng
- [1904, Decennial Reports on the Trade, Industries, Etc. of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce, and on Conditions and Development of the Treaty Port Provinces[1], China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu, →OCLC, page 256:
- The taxes being heavier here than on the new route overland via Lai-fêng-hsien, the latter has superseded that viâ Shasi . The Shasi merchants are said to have petitioned against the preferential treatment of Opium for Hunan via Lai-feng-hsien;]
- 1973, “LAI-FENG COUNTY ACTIVELY RECRUITS PARTY MEMBERS OF NATIONAL MINORITIES”, in Union Research Service[3], volume 72, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36:
- To raise the consciousness of the new Party members of national minorities in implementing Chairman Mao's revolutionary line and policies, the Party organizations at all levels in Lai-feng County also sent the new Party members of national minorities to the forefront of the three great revolutionary[...]
Translations
[edit]Laifeng — see Laifeng