Wanfow

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 雲浮／云浮 (wan⁴ fau⁴).

Pronunciation

• enPR: wänʹfouʹ

Proper noun

Wanfow

1. 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.

   • 1955, Union Research Service‎^[4], volume 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

     When interrogating their prospects, some cadres spoke so curtly and carelessly that their questions provoked only laughter. For example, the following conversation occurred between a Party cadre and a member-prospect in Wanfow County:

   • 1988, Jean-Paul Wiest, Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918-1955‎^[5], M. E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 218:

     Meanwhile the church of Wanfow was also returned to the Catholic Church and entrusted to Father Ma.