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Fengjie

Syllables: Feng·jie

Fengjie proper noun: a county of Chongqing, China.

Proper noun

Fengjie

  1. A county of Chongqing, China.
    • For many farmers, the immediate concern is the land beneath their feet. Landslides are striking different hillsides as the rising water places more pressure on the shoreline, local officials say. In Fengjie County, officials have designated more than 800 disaster-prone areas. Since 2004, landslides...2007 November 19, Jim Yardley, Zhang Jing, “Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Costs”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN...
    • No more missionaries were stationed in Kweifu, renamed Fengkieh [Fengjie], but missionary concern, connection, and conversions continued for years.[2013, David G. Kohl, “The Best of Times - 1928-1937”, in Lutherans On The Yangtze, volume I, Portland, Oregon: One Spirit Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 105, column 2

Forms of Fengjie

alternative formFengkieh
alternative formFengchieh
alternative formFeng-chieh
alternative formFêng-chieh

Origin of Fengjie

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 奉節 /奉节 (Fèngjié).

Questions about Fengjie

What does Fengjie mean?
Fengjie means a county of Chongqing, China.
What part of speech is Fengjie?
Fengjie is a proper noun.

Words near Fengjie in the dictionary

  1. Fenghsiang
  2. Fenghsien
  3. fenghuang
  4. fenghuangs
  5. fengite
  6. Fengjie
  7. Fengjing
  8. Fengle
  9. fenglin
  10. Fenglish
  11. Fengman

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