Lai-feng

Map including Lai-feng (DMA, 1975)

Map including LAIFENG (LAI-FENG) (DMA, 1989)

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 來鳳／来凤 (Láifèng), Wade-Giles romanization: Lai²-fêng⁴.

Proper noun

Lai-feng

1. Alternative form of Laifeng
   • [1904, Decennial Reports on the Trade, Industries, Etc. of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce, and on Conditions and Development of the Treaty Port Provinces‎^[1], China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu, →OCLC, page 256:

     The taxes being heavier here than on the new route overland via Lai-fêng-hsien, the latter has superseded that viâ Shasi . The Shasi merchants are said to have petitioned against the preferential treatment of Opium for Hunan via Lai-feng-hsien;]

   • 1973, Edward Evans-Pritchard, “T'uchia”, in China (including Tibet) Japan and Korea (Peoples of the Earth)‎^[2], volume 13, Italy: Danbury Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:

     They live in T'u-chia and Miao Autonomous Chou in Hunan, Lai-feng, Ho-feng and Yien Counties in Hupeh province, south-east China.

   • 1973, “LAI-FENG COUNTY ACTIVELY RECRUITS PARTY MEMBERS OF NATIONAL MINORITIES”, in Union Research Service‎^[3], volume 72, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36:

     To raise the consciousness of the new Party members of national minorities in implementing Chairman Mao's revolutionary line and policies, the Party organizations at all levels in Lai-feng County also sent the new Party members of national minorities to the forefront of the three great revolutionary[...]

Translations

Laifeng — see Laifeng

Anagrams

• faeling, fealing, finagle, fleaing, leafing