Langfang

See also: Lángfāng and Lángfáng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 廊坊 (Lángfáng).

Proper noun

Langfang

1. A prefecture-level city in Hebei, China.
   • 1966, James E. Sheridan, Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang‎^[1], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, 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^[2], 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.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廊坊 (zh) (Lángfáng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Langfang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1682, column 3