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Wufeng

See also: wúfēng, wúfèng, wǔfēng, and Wùfēng

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Pronunciation

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  • enPR: wo͞oʹfǔngʹ[1]
  • Hyphenation: Wu‧feng

Etymology 1

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Postal romanization of the Mandarin 五峰 (Wǔfēng).

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Wufeng

  1. A Tujia autonomous county in Yichang, Hubei, China.
    • 1977 November, Wu Han-wen, “Ho Lung's Days with the Red Army”, in China Reconstructs‎[2], volume XXVI, number 11, Peking, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 October 2023, page 13, column 3:
      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.
    • [1980, Arthur P. Wolf, Chieh-shan Huang, Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945‎[3], Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 97–98, 416:
      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 Hsing-shan hsien, "the agreement specifies how long he is to remain with his parents-in-law or notes that he cannot return home until they die."
      Wu-feng hsien (M) 五峯縣]
  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.
    • [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[4], archived from the original on 05 March 2023:
      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.]
    • [2017 June 1, Chen Bing-hung, Jake Chung, “Father George Martinson dies”, in Taipei Times‎[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 June 2017, Front Page, page 1‎[6]:
      Barry Martinson lives in Hsinchu’s Wufong Township (五峰), having moved there 42 years ago.]
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Etymology 2

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From Mandarin 霧峰 / 雾峰 (Wùfēng).

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Wufeng

  1. A district of Taichung, Taiwan.
    • 1976, China Yearbook 1976‎[8], Taipei: China Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 499, column 1:
      The fifth plenary session of the Provincial Assembly opened at Wufeng near Taichung in central Taiwan.
    • 1988, Joseph A. Yager, Transforming Agriculture in Taiwan: The Experience of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction‎[9], Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 150:
      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.
    • 1999 September 21, William Foreman, “Searchers Comb Wreckage in Taiwan; Toll Rises”, in The Washington Post‎[10], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 April 2023‎[11]:
      A huge Buddhist statue in Wufeng, Taiwan, tilts after the area was hit by a strong earthquake Tuesday.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wufeng.
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  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Wufeng”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2107, column 3
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