Wanfow
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Cantonese 雲浮 / 云浮 (wan4 fau4).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Wanfow
- Synonym of Yunfu: the Cantonese-derived name
- 1944 October 11, “Sino Counterblows Send Nips Reeling”, in The Stars and Stripes Mediterranean[2], Italy, →OCLC, page 1:
- The towns fell to Chinese troops who cut to the rear of the Japanese drive at a point near the Kwangtung-Kwangsi border. They were Loting, south of Wuchow, treaty port from which the Japs are heading westward towards Kweilin, and Wanfow, an adjoining community.
- 1954, Review of Hong Kong Chinese Press[3], →OCLC, page 9:
- Only two years ago, he was still a student in the "First Middle School of Takhing", but was forced to leave school and return to Wanfow because his father, a landlord, was expropriated from all his land by the Communists during the "agrarian reform" and later died.
References
[edit]- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Wanfow”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2058, column 3