Futian

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 福田 (Fútián).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: fo͞oʹtyěnʹ

Proper noun

Futian

  1. A district of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
    • 2006 December 9, Edward Cody, “Public Shaming of Prostitutes Misfires in China”, in The Washington Post‎[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 May 2024‎[2]:
      The spectacle, which took place Nov. 29 in the Shenzhen district of Futian, was in many ways unremarkable for a nation in which wrongdoers have long been subject to public humiliation.
    • 2019 February 7, Paul Mozur, Lin Qiqing, “How Facebook’s Tiny China Sales Floor Helps Generate Big Ad Money”, in The New York Times‎[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 February 2019, Technology‎[4]:
      In Shenzhen’s Futian district, on the ninth floor of a concrete tower, there is an open-air sales floor that works as a sort of corporate embassy for the social network.

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