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Fengxian
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Fèngxián
English
Fengxian District
Alternative forms
obsolete en Feng-hsien, en Fenghsien, en Fengsien
Etymology
The atonal en cmn-pinyin -cf. 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.Fengxian/Feng-hsien romanization of the en cmn 奉賢 Fèngxián offer to the worthy, a 1726 modification of the earlier name zh 齊賢 Qíxián equal to the worthy.
Pronunciation
en /fɛŋʃiən/
fŭng′shyĕn′Fengsien or Fenghsien 609 3
en Feng xian
Proper noun
en district city/Shanghai c/China.
en August 24, 1938 August 21, 1938 Japanese Round Up Guerillas North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette https://archive.org/details/north-china-herald-1938.08.24/ Shanghai CCVIII 3707 311405954 316 https://archive.org/details/north-china-herald-1938.08.24/page/316/ 4 At Fengsien, 45 kilometres due south of Shanghai, a Japanese force attacked a band of 400 guerillas at 4 a.m. on August 13, putting them to flight.
en 1987 w:Ronald Hardy Escape The Wings of the Wind https://archive.org/details/wingsofwind00hard/ Fiction New York w:G. P. Putnam's Sons 0-399-12986-3 86-20545 14098941 34 https://archive.org/details/wingsofwind00hard/page/34/ He found a Rev. Dr. Arthur Cannon at an address on the Shanghai road near to Fengsien. on
en SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 Didi Kirsten Tatlow; Slyvia Zhang For Shanghai Jobs, Only ‘Normal Size’ Need Apply https://web.archive.org/web/20230319102013/https://archive.nytimes.com/sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/for-shanghai-jobs-only-normal-size-need-apply/ 19 March 2023 At the Shanghai Fengxian District Huangpu River Flood Prevention Center, which was seeking an accountant, a man who answered the phone said: “We have female employees. We do not discriminate against women. But we want to hire more men, because this work includes night shifts. Women might be frightened to be alone in the building at night.”
Translations
District of Shanghai, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 奉賢
Mandarin: cmn 奉賢 Fèngxián
References
Further reading
en 2008 Fengxian 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
Anagrams
en aefginnx Xiangfen Xianfeng