Xianfeng

See also: xiānfēng and Xiánfēng

English

Alternative forms

• Sienfeng (Postal Romanization)
• Hsien-feng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 咸豐 (Xiánfēng).

Proper noun

Xianfeng

1. An era name of Qing, used in 1851 – 1861.
2. A county of Enshi, Hubei, China.
   • [1971 March 17 [1971 March 12], “Hupeh Commune Hog Raising”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 52, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 9:

     In (Yui) commune, Hsienfeng County, Hupeh, at present 2,459 pigs are being raised and, on average, there are 4.2 pigs per household.]

   • 2000, John Pojeta, Jr., “Cambrian Pelecypoda (Mollusca)”, in American Malacological Bulletin‎^[1], volume 15, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 159, column 2:

     His material is from the Tianheban Formation, a Redlichia trilobite-bearing Lower Cambrian unit at Zhongbao Village, Xianfeng County, Hubei Province, China; Zhang treated the bivalves from Hubei as pelecypods.

   • 2011, Xu Wu, “Hezha Restaurants”, in Farming, Cooking, and Eating Practices in the Central China Highland: How Hezha Foods Function to Establish Ethnic Identity‎^[2], Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44:

     She said that about twenty years ago she opened her first restaurant named Zhengzong Hezha Restaurant at her village, the Zhang Village, alongside the road which connects Enshi to Xianfeng County.

Translations

county in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 咸豐 (zh) (Xiánfēng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xianfeng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 1
• Xianfeng, Hsienfeng, Hsien-feng at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Anagrams

• Xiangfen, Fengxian