Xiangfen
See also: xiāngfěn
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 襄汾.
Proper noun edit
Xiangfen
- A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
- 2008 September 10, “Rescue hopes fade after landslide in China kills dozens”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 December 2023, Asia Pacific[2]:
- The landslide that plowed into buildings Monday in a valley in Shanxi Province's Xiangfen County also injured 35 others and trapped an unknown number of people under the rubble, local officials said. […]
"There were survivors on the first day and on the second day, but from day three, it's very likely that anyone we find in the future will be dead already," said a woman named Dong who heads the public relations department of Xiangfen County.
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Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiangfen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 2
- Xiangfen, Hsiangfen, Hsiang-fen at Google Ngram Viewer