feng

plural fengs

1. human sciencesThe Latin-script letter ʩ, used to transcribe a voiceless velopharyngeal fricative in the context of disordered speech.

plural fengs

1. alternativeAlternative form of fum (“fabulous Chinese bird”).

   In China, the phoenix is known as the Feng-huang; in its "feng" aspect it is a male, solar sybol, while as "huang", it is a female and lunar, making it an embodiment of the union of yin and yang.

   南台人文社會學報

   2012 May, Hui-Chih Yu [于惠之], “The Cross-cultural Symbolism of Birds - An Approach to Arousing Students' Interest in Learning English [論不同文化中鳥的象徵意義 — 激發學生學習英語興趣之途徑]”, in STUST Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences [南台人文社會學報], number 7, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2023, page 157

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   One of them would be chosen by the ancient chimera bird, Feng-Huang, which resided atop of the mighty Kunlun mountain range of which Bayan Har Shan formed part. These mountains, which Ji Shi had reportedly sprung from, seemed to be a hotbed of supernatural activity. The legendary bird had a male aspect, Feng, and a female aspect, Huang, and presided over every other bird in the land ... it was known to have the beak of a rooster, the face of a swallow, the forehead of a fowl, the neck of a snake, the breast of a goose, the back of a tortoise, the hindquarters of a stag and the tail of a fish. Feng-Huang would only appear in the most harmonious and joyous of situations. Its coming always heralded the beginning of a new era of imperial rule, and bestowed the perfect balance of yin and yang upon heaven’s mandate.

   2013, Traci Harding, “The Rite of Gao Mei”, in Dreaming of Zhou Gong, HarperVoyager, published 2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 363

1. uncountableA kind of Eurasian curry.

1. A river in Shaanxi Province, China.
2. historicalAn ancient city in Xi'an, Shaanxi, a former capital of China under the Zhou dynasty.

   Finally King Wen 文 moved to Feng 沣 and King Wu 武 moved to Hao 镐 (west and east respectively of the Feng 沣 River in Chang'an 长安 Xian).

   早周都城岐邑初探

   1985, Chen Quanfang [陈全方], “An Initial Investigation into the Site of the Early Zhou Capital Qi Yi [早周都城岐邑初探]”, in Chinese Archaeological Abstracts, 2, Prehistoric to Western Zhou, Los Angeles, sourced from Wenwu 1979.10:44-50, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 490, column 1

   Synonyms: Fengjing, Fengxi

3. A surname from Mandarin.

plural Fengs

1. A surname from Mandarin.

   At the time Feng Yü-hsiang arrived in Pukow, Feng Kuo-chang had seemed to be gaining the upper hand over Tuan and his clique.

   1966, James E. Sheridan, Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69

1. A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.

   SHAANXI[…] The policeman, named Liu Zhi, spotted the boy sitting weeping in the street, with an empty bottle of poison beside him, as he drove to work in Feng county.

   2015 March 27, Angela Meng, “Around the nation: President Xi Jinping’s ‘China dream’ fires model maker’s imagination”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2015, China Insider

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   In the movement to study the theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the militia company of Lienfangszu production brigade under the Nanhsing commune in Feng county, Shensi Province, organized the militiamen to take part in class struggle in society, hit out at the sabotaging activities of the class enemies and criticized the tendency toward capitalism, revisionism and the doctrines[…]

   1975 [1975 June 20], Survey of People's Republic of China Press, United States Consulate General (Hong Kong), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 58

   Seeking to demonstrate that the case of He Chuanyang and other Chongqing students were not unique, a widely circulated post, entitled "One after another, they change their race" rehashed a 2008 story of ethnic-based corruption in Feng County in Shaanxi Province (Hanwu tianxia 2009). Following a decline in the local economy, construction company officials encouraged the Feng County government to construct a "Qiang ethnic native village" (Qiangzu guli 羌族故里) to open up new sources of revenue while nominally boasting local tourism.

   2014, Minority Education in China: Balancing Unity and Diversity in an Era of Critical Pluralism, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 315

   A large scale survey and a small scale continuous monitoring was conducted to evaluate the impact of Pb/Zn smelting on soil heavy metals (HMs) accumulation and potential ecological risk in Feng County, Shaanxi province of China.

   2017 May, Feng Shen, Renmei Liao, Amjad Ali, Amanullah Mahar, Di Guo, Ronghua Li, Sun Xining, Mukesh Kumar Awasthi, Quan Wang, Zengqiang Zhang, “Spatial distribution and risk assessment of heavy metals in soil near a Pb/Zn smelter in Feng County, China”, in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, volume 139, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC

   The seat of administration was in present-day Feng zhou 鳳州 town, located northeast of Feng 鳳 county in Shaan xi 陝西. The territory administered comprised Feng county in present-day Shaan xi, and the two present-day counties of Hui 徽縣 and Liang dang 兩當 in Gan su 甘肅.

   2017, Hua Linfu, Paul D. Buell, Paul U. Unschuld, Ben Cao Gang Mu Dictionary, volume 2, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 101

   Shaanxi-based current affairs commentator Huang Ping said the caged woman's case had shown that the Feng county chained woman's case was just the tip of the iceberg, and involved the collusion of local officials.

   2022 March 3, “Police in China's Shaanxi detain man amid investigation into caged woman”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2022

2. A surname from Mandarin.

   Synonyms: Fengxian