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Qufu

Syllables: Qu·fu

Qufu proper noun: a county-level city of Jining, Shandong, China.

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
    • The most notable example of engraved dragons is on the stone columns of the Temple to Confucius at his birthplace in Chüfu. These are also found in the "cloud pillars" (single stone columns—huapiao in Chinese) outside the Tienanmen, while those at the Ming Tombs are still finer.[1961, Yutang Lin, “Studies in Form: Temples, Pagodas and the Plastic Arts”, in Imperial Peking: Seven Centuries of China, New York: Crown Publishers, →OCLC, page 125
    Synonyms:
    Ch'ü-fou, Chufou, Kufow

Synonyms of Qufu

Forms of Qufu

alternative formCh'ü-fu

Origin of Qufu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 曲阜 (Qūfù).

Questions about Qufu

What does Qufu mean?
Qufu means a county-level city of Jining, Shandong, China.
What part of speech is Qufu?
Qufu is a proper noun.

Words near Qufu in the dictionary

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