Danfeng

Dan·feng
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/(ˈ)dɑnˈfʌŋ//dæn-//-fɛŋ/

proper noun

A county of Shangluo, Shaanxi, China.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Tan-feng

  1. A county of Shangluo, Shaanxi, China.

    Li Meng, an online influencer living in the countryside in Danfeng County, Shangluo, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, started eco-breeding business with her husband this year.

    2020 September 16, “Online Influencer Launches Chicken Farming in Shaanxi”, in All-China Women's Federation, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2022
    2 more examples

    Jia Pingwa was born in 1952, on the twenty-first day of the second month of the lunar calendar. His birthplace is Lihua^([sic – meaning Dihua]) [translating 棣花 (Dìhuā)] Township, Danfeng County in Shaanxi Province.

    1991, Sun Jianxi, “Jia Pingwa and His Fiction”, in The Time is Not Yet Ripe, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 99

    Chia was a country boy, born and bred in rural Tanfeng County of Shaansi Province. Like youth all over China, he had his education interrupted during middle school by the Cultural Revolution, and he gave up school for farming.

    [1994, “Chinese Literature”, in Marion Sader, editor, The Reader's Adviser, 14th edition, volume 2, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 242

Origin

  1. Mandarin丹鳳 /丹凤
  2. EnglishDanfeng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 丹鳳 /丹凤 (Dānfèng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 丹鳳 /丹凤
  • 丹鳳 /丹凤 (daan¹ fung⁶)county in northwest China
Chinese Mandarin 丹鳳 /丹凤
  • 丹鳳 /丹凤 (Dānfèng)county in northwest China
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APA

Danfeng. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Danfeng

MLA

“Danfeng.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Danfeng. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Danfeng,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Danfeng.

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