Dengfeng

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 登封 (Dēngfēng).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʌŋ.fʌŋ/, /dɛŋ.fɛŋ/, enPR: dǔngʹfǔngʹ[1]

Proper noun

Dengfeng

  1. A county-level city of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
    • [1978 December 11 [1978 December 5], “Honan First Secretary Sets Example on 'Special Privilege'”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 238, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking Domestic Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 7:
      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.]
    • 2008 August 31, David Barboza, quoting Mei Shuaiyuan, “In the mountains, another big Chinese extravaganza”, in The Washington Post‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 December 2022‎[3]:
      "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."
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Dengfeng.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tengfeng”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1892, column 3

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