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Wufeng

Syllables: Wu·feng

Wufeng proper noun: a Tujia autonomous county in Yichang, Hubei, China.

Proper noun (1)

Wufeng

  1. A Tujia autonomous county in Yichang, Hubei, China.
    • They captured Hofeng county in Hupeh and Sangchih county in Hunan and set up Soviet power. Then they built up revolutionary bases around Hsuan-en and Wufeng counties in Hupeh province.1977 November, Wu Han-wen, “Ho Lung's Days with the Red Army”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVI, number 11, Peking, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2023, page 13, column 3
    • In Wu-feng hsien “the marriage contract of a pan-tzu pan-hsü only stipulates that the son-in-law is "to support his parents-in-law while they live and to bury them when they die. It does not specify the number of years he is to remain with the family." But in Chu-ch’i hsien, Ma-ch’eng hsien, and...[1980, Arthur P. Wolf, Chieh-shan Huang, Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945, Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 97–98, 416
  2. A town in Wufeng, Yichang, Hubei, China.
  3. A township in Yunyang district, Shiyan, Hubei, China.
  4. A mountain indigenous township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan.
    • Covering 76,850 hectacres, about three times the area of Taipei City, Shei-Pa National Park comprises Wufong and Jianshih in Sinjhu County, Taian in Miaoli County, and Heping in Taijhong County.[2003 March, “Shei-Pa National Park Guide to the Exhibition Hall in Wenshui Visitor Center”, in Bai Fengshuo, transl., edited by Michael Lee, Young-Fa Lin, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2023
    • Barry Martinson lives in Hsinchu’s Wufong Township (五峰), having moved there 42 years ago.[2017 June 1, Chen Bing-hung, Jake Chung, “Father George Martinson dies”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2017, Front Page, page 1

Proper noun (2)

Wufeng

  1. A district of Taichung, Taiwan.
    • The fifth plenary session of the Provincial Assembly opened at Wufeng near Taichung in central Taiwan.1976, China Yearbook 1976, Taipei: China Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 499, column 1
    • In 1977, the institute moved into new facilities at Wufeng, Taichung Hsien, in central Taiwan. At Wufeng, it has an experimental farm of 128 hectares, four laboratory buildings, an administration building, 12 greenhouses, and a number of auxiliary buildings.1988, Joseph A. Yager, Transforming Agriculture in Taiwan: The Experience of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 150

Forms of Wufeng

alternative formWu-feng
alternative formWufong

Origin of Wufeng

Postal romanization of the Mandarin 五峰 (Wǔfēng).

From Mandarin 霧峰 /雾峰 (Wùfēng).

Questions about Wufeng

What does Wufeng mean?
Wufeng means a Tujia autonomous county in Yichang, Hubei, China.
What part of speech is Wufeng?
Wufeng is a proper noun.

Words near Wufeng in the dictionary

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  7. wuff
  8. wuffed
  9. wuffing
  10. wuffle
  11. wuffled

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