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Fengxiang
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fēngxiāng fēngxiàng Fèngxiáng
English
Alternative forms
en Fenghsiang Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1998 Blunden Caroline w:Mark Elvin Gazetteer Graham Speake Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File Checkmark Books 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 9770589M 232, 233 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/233/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Fengxiang/Feng-hsiang 34°30′N 107°30′E, romanization of the en cmn 鳳翔.
Pronunciation
fŭng′shyäng′Fengsiang or Feng-hsiang 609 3
en Feng xiang
Proper noun
en district prefecture-level city/Baoji province/Shaanxi c/China formerly a county.
en 1986 Dorothy R. Pape The Red Grip Tightens Go for it! https://archive.org/details/goforit0000pape/ Burlington, Ontario Welch Publishing Company 0-920413-92-7 1345569123 89-90 https://archive.org/details/goforit0000pape/page/90/ A wealthy Chinese Christian in Shensi, planning to move to the safety of Szechuan province, now offered to lend the Bible School some larger premises he owned in Paoki, a city at the end of the railway line to the south west of Fengsiang. They therefore gladly moved from their crowded quarters, leaving the Fishers alone in the Fengsiang compound. on
en June 16, 1986 CHINESE TOMB FOUND TO BE VICTIM OF GRAVE ROBBERS https://web.archive.org/web/20150524191311/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/16/us/chinese-tomb-found-to-be-victim-of-grave-robbers.html 24 May 2015 B 10 "Archeologists drew almost a complete blank in their search of the inner tomb," the official New China News Agency said Saturday in a report of excavations at the tomb site, thought to be between 2,200 and 2,800 years old. The site is in Fengxiang County of Shaanxi Province, about 90 miles west of the ancient Yellow River capital of Xian.
en March 12, 2010 Polly Yam China Dongling to reopen lead/zinc plant this month Ed Lane w:Reuters https://web.archive.org/web/20101115220410/https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE62B05H/ November 15, 2010 https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE62B05H/ HONG KONG The lead and zinc smelter in Changqing in Fengxiang county, close to Baoji city in Shaanxi province, has about 33,000 tonnes of annual lead capacity and 66,000 tonnes of zinc capacity.The incident in Fengxiang county also caused authorities to tighten controls and checks on lead smelters nationwide and close three smelting facilities in Jiyuan city in neighbouring Henan province, the top producing area in China, which is the world's top maker of metal widely used in batteries.
Translations
district
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 鳳翔
Mandarin: cmn 鳳翔
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 2008 Fengxiang Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1215 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1215/ 3
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