Yunfu

See also: yùnfǔ, yùnfù, and Yúnfú

English

Alternative forms

• Yün-fu (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 雲浮／云浮 (Yúnfú).

Proper noun

Yunfu

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China.
   • 1939, J. S. Lee, The Geology of China‎^[1], London: Thomas Murby & Co., →OCLC, page 478:

     (44) WESTERN KUANGTUNG
     [...]Tatai Formation. Ferruginous sandstone interstratified with beds of limonite which contain Tertiary plants. A thick conglomerate or breccia cemented by ferruginous sands and clays forms the basal part. Typically developed at Tataiyung and Shanshuiwei in the vicinity of the city of Yunfu.

   • 1978 November 9, K. P. Wang, “China's Mineral Economy”, in Chinese Economy Post-Mao: A Compendium of Papers‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 387:

     China's 13 large foreign fertilizer plants ordered a few years ago are all scheduled to be in operation in a year or two. […] China's biggest pyrite mine (openpit), being built in Yunfu, Kwangtung Province, was near completion.

   • 2006 March 26, Edward Cody, “Bulldozed by Growth, Stonewalled by Government Pleas by Peasant Farmers for Fair Payment for Land Are Left Unanswered”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 August 2017‎^[4]:

     The fields of Aoshi and surrounding hamlets have been swallowed up by economic development unfurling at breakneck speed across the plains and hills here in Guangdong province, about 175 miles northwest of Hong Kong.
     Like the stooped peasant working the soil, many farmers here have been reduced to tilling vacant strips along the borders of new buildings and construction sites, raising crops on ground that is no longer legally theirs to work. Their land, on the edge of fast-growing Yunfu city, has been marked for development, and they have been marked for obsolescence.

   • 2014 April 25, Keith Bradsher, “A Policy-Making Mystery in the Renminbi’s Decline”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-04-26, International Business‎^[6]:

     Mr. Yan, the general manager of Yunfu Citistone Manufactory, a maker of decorative tiles and wash basins located in Yunfu, a city in southern China’s Guangdong province, said he had resisted cutting prices even as each dollar in export revenue covered more renminbi of his costs.

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

Synonyms

• (from Cantonese) Wanfow
• Yün-fou

Translations

city in Guangdong, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雲浮／云浮 (wan⁴ fau⁴)

  Mandarin: 雲浮／云浮 (zh) (Yúnfú)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yunfu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3540, column 3