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Kufow

Kufow is the obsolete 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

Questions about Kufow

What is Kufow the obsolete form of?
Kufow is the obsolete form of Qufu.

Words near Kufow in the dictionary

  1. kufiyas
  2. kufiyya
  3. kufiyyas
  4. Kufor-Rakeb disease
  5. Kufor-Rakeb syndrome
  6. Kufow
  7. kufr
  8. Kufra
  9. Kufrah
  10. kufs
  11. Kufstein

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