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Xianfeng

Syllables: Xian·feng

Xianfeng proper noun: an era name of Qing, used in 1851 – 1861.

Proper noun

Xianfeng

  1. An era name of Qing, used in 1851 – 1861.
  2. A county of the Enshi autonomous region, Hubei, China.
    • In (Yui) commune, Hsienfeng County, Hupeh, at present 2,459 pigs are being raised and, on average, there are 4.2 pigs per household.[1971 March 17 [1971 March 12], “Hupeh Commune Hog Raising”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 52, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial...
    • His material is from the Tianheban Formation, a Redlichia trilobite-bearing Lower Cambrian unit at Zhongbao Village, Xianfeng County, Hubei Province, China; Zhang treated the bivalves from Hubei as pelecypods.2000, John Pojeta, Jr., “Cambrian Pelecypoda (Mollusca)”, in American Malacological Bulletin, volume 15, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 159, column 2

Forms of Xianfeng

alternative formSienfeng
alternative formHsien-feng

Origin of Xianfeng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 咸豐 (Xiánfēng).

Words that rhyme with Xianfeng

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Questions about Xianfeng

What does Xianfeng mean?
Xianfeng means an era name of Qing, used in 1851 – 1861.
What part of speech is Xianfeng?
Xianfeng is a proper noun.

Words near Xianfeng in the dictionary

  1. xian
  2. Xian'an
  3. Xianbei
  4. xianbing
  5. xianbings
  6. Xianfeng
  7. Xiang
  8. Xiang'an
  9. Xiangcheng
  10. Xiangdong
  11. Xiangfen

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