K'ai-feng

See also: kǎifēng, kāifēng, Kaifeng, and Kāifēng

English

Map including K'AI-FENG (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 開封／开封 (Kāifēng), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-fêng¹.^[1][2]

Proper noun

K'ai-feng

1. Alternative form of Kaifeng
   • [1904, C. D. Tenney, “中國 [Zhōngguó, The Chinese Empire]”, in Geography of Asia‎, New York: MacMillan and Co, →OCLC, page 10:

     The capital, Kʻai-fêng Fu (開封府), is situated a few miles from the south bank of the Yellow River.]

   • 1975, John Winthrop Haeger, editor, Crisis and Prosperity in Sung China‎, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 61–62:

     The eastern part of the city of K'ai-feng and is adjacent rural area was under the hsien of K'ai-feng; the western part and its adjacent rural area under that of Hsiang-fu (at first called Chün-i).

   • 1978, Yasushi Inoue, translated by Jean Oda Moy, Tun-huang‎, Kodansha International, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xi:

     The main character, Chao Hsing-te, has gone to K'ai-feng to take his Palace Examination.

   • 2011, Gary Schwartz, The Impulse Economy : Understanding Mobile Shoppers and What Makes Them Buy‎, Atria Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33:

     I was in China twenty years ago, filming a documentary on the last Chinese Jews of the old trading city K'ai-feng, located just south of Beijing.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:K'ai-feng.

Translations

Kaifeng — see Kaifeng

References

1. Kaifeng, Wade-Giles romanization K’ai-feng, in Encyclopædia Britannica
2. “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China‎, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 480: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] K'ai-feng (Kaifeng) 開封”

Further reading

• “K'ai-feng” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• feaking