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Dengfeng
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English
Alternative forms
en Teng-feng Têng-fêng 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 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/232/ 1, 5 Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Dengfeng/Teng-feng/Songzhou 34°27′N 113°03′E, romanization of the en cmn 登封.
Pronunciation
en /dʌŋ.fʌŋ/ /dɛŋ.fɛŋ/, dŭng′fŭng′Tengfeng 1892 3
en Deng feng
Proper noun
en county-level city prefecture-level city/Zhengzhou province/Henan c/China.
en 11 December 1978 5 December 1978 Honan First Secretary Sets Example on 'Special Privilege' Daily Report: People's Republic of China I 238 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578882&seq=525 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking Domestic Service cmn 0892-0141 1113433 People's Republic of China: Central-South Region H 7 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578882&seq=588 On 22 October the dependents of Comrades Tuan Chun-i and (Liu Chieh) rode in a motor vehicle provided by a government organ to tour Tengfeng County. on
en August 31, 2008 w:David Barboza Mei Shuaiyuan In the mountains, another big Chinese extravaganza https://web.archive.org/web/20221230062936/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/world/asia/31iht-tan.1.15758522.html 30 December 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/world/asia/31iht-tan.1.15758522.html "Dengfeng city has the oldest mountain in China, Mount Song," Mei said. "It is the cradle of Zen in China; it has Shaolin; it has a very profound culture. They wanted to promote it, combining Zen and Shaolin together, to help boost tourism."
en
Translations
county-level city
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 登封
Mandarin: cmn 登封 Dēngfēng
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 2008 Dengfeng 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 996 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/996/ 2