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Hsiangfen

Hsiangfen is the alternative form of Xiangfen.

Meaning of Xiangfen

Proper noun

Xiangfen

  1. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
    • Except for small-scale diggings at the old sites at Choukoutien starting in 1949,² significant field work in Palaeolithic archaeology in North China was not resumed until May 1953, when a new locality was discovered near Ting Ts’un, in Hsiang-fen Hsien, in the Fen River valley of Southern Shansi.[1960 [1958 Winter], Kwang-chih Chang, “New Light on Early Man in China”, in Hallam L. Movius, Jr., Wilhelm G. Solheim II, editors, Asian Perspectives, volume II, number 2, Hong Kong University...

Origin of Hsiangfen

From Mandarin 襄汾 (Xiāngfén), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsiang¹-fên².

Questions about Hsiangfen

What is Hsiangfen the alternative form of?
Hsiangfen is the alternative form of Xiangfen.

Words near Hsiangfen in the dictionary

  1. Hsiang
  2. Hsiang Kang
  3. Hsiang-ch'eng
  4. Hsiang-t'an
  5. Hsiang-yang
  6. Hsiangfen
  7. hsianghualite
  8. Hsiangtan
  9. Hsiao
  10. Hsiao-chuan
  11. Hsiao-kan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hsiangfen (page history and authors); Xiangfen (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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