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Fenghsien

Fenghsien is the alternative form of Fengxian.

Meaning of Fengxian

Proper noun

Fengxian

  1. A district of Shanghai, China.
    • At Fengsien, 45 kilometres due south of Shanghai, a Japanese force attacked a band of 400 guerillas at 4 a.m. on August 13, putting them to flight.1938 August 24 [1938 August 21], “Japanese Round Up Guerillas^([sic])”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume CCVIII, number 3707, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 316, column 4

Origin of Fenghsien

From Mandarin 奉賢／奉贤 (Fèngxián) Wade–Giles romanization: Fêng⁴-hsien².

Questions about Fenghsien

What is Fenghsien the alternative form of?
Fenghsien is the alternative form of Fengxian.

Words near Fenghsien in the dictionary

  1. fengcong
  2. Fengdu
  3. Fengfeng
  4. Fenghao
  5. Fenghsiang
  6. Fenghsien
  7. fenghuang
  8. fenghuangs
  9. fengite
  10. Fengjie
  11. Fengjing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Fenghsien (page history and authors); Fengxian (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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