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Lin-fen

Lin-fen is the alternative form of Linfen.

Meaning of Linfen

Proper noun

Linfen

  1. A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
    • Headquarters of the Second War Zone was at that time at Linfen, a sizable city on the railway in the southern half of Shansi, jammed now with soldiers, officials and refugees from the North.1938, Anna Louise Strong, One-Fifth of Mankind, New York: Modern Age Books, →OCLC, page 121

Origin of Lin-fen

From Mandarin 臨汾 /临汾 (Línfén) Wade–Giles romanization: Lin²-fên².

Questions about Lin-fen

What is Lin-fen the alternative form of?
Lin-fen is the alternative form of Linfen.

Words near Lin-fen in the dictionary

  1. limurite
  2. limus
  3. limy
  4. lin
  5. Lin'an
  6. Lin-fen
  7. Lin-i
  8. Lin-Kernighan heuristic
  9. lin-log
  10. Lin-t'ung
  11. Lin-ts'ang

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