Fengtai

See also: Feng-t'ai

English

Alternative forms

• Feng-t'ai (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 豐臺／豐台／丰台 (Fēngtái).

Proper noun

Fengtai

1. A district of Beijing, China.
   • 1938, T. A. Bisson, Japan in China‎^[1], New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 13:

     Only Japan, since 1933, had exercised the right of stationing troops at most of the twelve places specified in Article IX. In addition, from the end of 1935 Japan arbitrarily assumed the right of stationing a military force at Tungchow, and from September 1936 at Fengtai. The maintenance of Japanese troops at these two towns was clearly contrary to the provisions of the Boxer Protocol.

   • 2016 December 23, Chris Buckley, Adam Wu, “No Trial for Beijing Officers Over Death of Environmentalist”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 December 2016, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     “The circumstances of the criminality were slight and they were able to acknowledge and repent their crimes,” the procuratorate, or prosecutors’ office, of Fengtai district in south Beijing, said of the officers.

   • 2021 May 13, Zhenjie Yang, Guilan Zhu, Linda Chelan Li, Yilong Sheng, “Services and surveillance during the pandemic lockdown: Residents’ committees in Wuhan and Beijing”, in China Information‎^[4], volume 35, number 3, →DOI, page 425:

     An outbreak in the Xinfadi wet market, in Fengtai District of southern Beijing, in mid-June led to a complete lockdown of 12 communities near the market and mass testing of over 11 million residents across Beijing by 6 July. A total of 335 new cases were detected.

   • 2022 January 23, “Beijing tests 2 million for Covid as Winter Olympics loom”, in France 24‎^[5], archived from the original on 23 January 2022:

     Local authorities have identified Fengtai district in southern Beijing as the epicentre of a cluster of six new confirmed infections, taking the number of cases in the capital to 34.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Fengtai.

Translations

district of Beijing, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 豐臺／丰台 (fung¹ toi⁴), 豐台 (fung¹ toi⁴)

  Mandarin: 豐臺／丰台 (zh) (Fēngtái), 豐台 (Fēngtái)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fengtai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1215, column 3

Anagrams

• fangite, feating