Sianfu
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Etymology edit
From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 西安府 (Xī'ān fǔ), from Xi'an's former status as the center of a military commandery, 府 (fǔ).
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Sianfu
- (obsolete) Synonym of Xi'an: the provincial capital of Shaanxi in central China.
- 1941, Edgar Snow, The Battle for Asia, New York: Random House, page 26:
- As we rode slowly over the Lunghai Line toward Sianfu, across the brown sun-baked plains of Northern Honan, soon to be flooded when the Chinese breached the Yellow River dikes to stop the advancing Yellow Horde, we passed many troop trains en-route to the front.