Feng-t'ai

A form of Fengtai — A rural settlement, later a town, to the southwest of Beijing city wall, in China.

OriginMandarin 豐臺 /豐台 /丰台 →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Fengtai.

    However, on May 29, the situation again became ominous. The Boxers had burned to the ground certain railway stations —one of them at Feng-t’ai, six miles from Peking.

    1966, Edmund S. Wehrle, Britain, China, and the Antimissionary Riots, 1891-1900, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 164
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    Other industrial suburbs, southwest of the city, include Feng-t'ai, with railroad marshalling yards, bridge-construction, concrete railroad ties and asbestos-pipe factories, and Ch'ang-hsin-tien, with locomotive and rolling-stock shops.

    1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 533, column 1

    On the same day MacDonald suggested to General Gaselee, who had by this time arrived to take over from General Dorward, that British forces should occupy a point on the Peking-Tientsin section of the line north of the stretch on which the Russians were already working. Gaselee acted promptly and the little station of Feng-t'ai was occupied on 30 August.

    1970, L. K. Young, British Policy in China, 1895-1902, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 196

    I have been in touch with Commander Chʻen and tonight a special military train will leave from Feng-tʻai, which will transport a troop division for guard duty at Paoting to ensure the security of the deliberations of the Central Commtitee^([sic – meaning Committee]).

    1978, Hsia Chih-yen, translated by Liang-lao Dee, The Coldest Winter in Peking, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 206

Origin

  1. Mandarin豐臺 /豐台 /丰台
  2. EnglishFeng-t'ai

From Mandarin 豐臺 /豐台 /丰台 (Fēngtái) Wade–Giles romanization: Fêng¹-tʻai².

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Feng-t'ai. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Feng-t'ai

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