Fenghuang

See also: fenghuang, fènghuáng, and feng-huang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 鳳凰 / 凤凰 (Fènghuáng).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: fǔngʹhwängʹ[1]

Proper noun

Fenghuang

  1. A county of Xiangxi prefecture, Hunan, China.
    • 2007 August 14, “Bridge collapse in China kills at least 22”, in The New York Times‎[2], sourced from BEIJING Xinhua News Agency, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 June 2024, Asia Pacific‎[3]:
      The official Xinhua press agency said that 86 people were rescued, including the 22 who were injured when the 320-meter, or 1,050-foot, bridge spanning the Tuo River in Hunan Province collapsed Monday. The cause of the collapse was under investigation, it said.
      The 43-meter-high bridge in Fenghuang County had four decorative stone arches and was scheduled to open at the end of this month, Xinhua said. […]
      Part of the bridge collapsed across a highway linking Fenghuang County to an airport in the Tongren region of neighboring Guizhou Province, according to a notice posted on the local government Web site on Tuesday.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Fenghwang or Feng-huang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 609, column 2
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