Xiangfen

See also: xiāngfěn

English

Alternative forms

• Hsiangfen (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 襄汾.

Proper noun

Xiangfen

1. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
   • [1976, Kwang-chih Chang, “Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Foundations”, in The Archaeology of Ancient China‎^[1], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 56–57:

     Three human teeth also came to light in 1954 at Locality 100 of Ting-ts’un, in Hsiang-fen Hsien, southern Shansi.]

   • 2008 September 10, “Rescue hopes fade after landslide in China kills dozens”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 December 2023, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     The landslide that plowed into buildings Monday in a valley in Shanxi Province's Xiangfen County also injured 35 others and trapped an unknown number of people under the rubble, local officials said. […]
     "There were survivors on the first day and on the second day, but from day three, it's very likely that anyone we find in the future will be dead already," said a woman named Dong who heads the public relations department of Xiangfen County.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 襄汾 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiangfen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 2
• Xiangfen, Hsiangfen, Hsiang-fen at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Anagrams

• Xianfeng, Fengxian