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Ch'ü-fu

Ch'ü-fu is the alternative form of Qufu.

Meaning of Qufu

Proper noun

Qufu

  1. A county-level city of Jining, Shandong, China.
    • (4) Ting Pao-cheng, lieut.-governor of Shantung, reports having sacrificed to the Tai Shan (泰山), inspected the Confucian Temple at Chüfow (the native place of Confucius), which has just undergone a thorough repair, and examined the dykes erected to protect the low lands, in the neighbourhood of...[1872 July 27, “Abstract of Peking Gazettes”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume IX, number 273, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 69, column 1
    Synonyms:
    Ch'ü-fou, Chufou, Kufow

Origin of Ch'ü-fu

From Mandarin 曲阜 (Qūfù), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻü¹-fu⁴.

Questions about Ch'ü-fu

What is Ch'ü-fu the alternative form of?
Ch'ü-fu is the alternative form of Qufu.

Words near Ch'ü-fu in the dictionary

  1. Ch'un-ch'iu
  2. Ch'ung-ch'ing
  3. Ch'ung-ming
  4. Ch'ü-chou
  5. Ch'ü-fou
  6. Ch'ü-fu
  7. Ch'üan-chou
  8. Ch'ŏndoism
  9. Ch*na
  10. Ch*nese
  11. ch-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ch'ü-fu (page history and authors); Qufu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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