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Caifum
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English
Etymology
From irregular en pt - romanization of the en cmn - pronunciation of en zh 開封 Kāifēng.
Proper noun
en obsolete en Kaifeng, a city on the Yellow River in central China, a former national capital.
1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 7:
CAIFUM, a city of China, ſituated in the province of Honan, on the river Crocceus, three hundred and fifty miles north-weſt of Nanking...