Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Hefei.
In 1926 he left the school and returned to Shanghai. The Northern Expedition (of the Nationalist Revolution) had already begun. Nieh was sent back to Anhui, to the town of Ho-fei.
1957, Edgar Snow, Random Notes on Red China, Harvard University Press, published 1968, →OCLC, →OL, page 1342 more examples
Han's camp was in the neighborhood of the modern Ho-fei in central Anhwei province, and his troops had a relatively easy march south and east to the north bank of the Yangtze opposite a point near the modern city of Wuhu.
1978, Arthur F. Wright, The Sui Dynasty, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 142–143HUANG Tê-kung 黃得功 (T. 滸山, 虎山), d. 1645, June 15, Ming loyalist general, was a native of Kʻai-yüan, (Liao-ning), to which place his ancestors had moved from Ho-fei, Anhwei.
2010, Arthur W. Hummel Sr., editor, Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912), volume 1, Global Oriental, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 348
Origin
- Mandarin合肥
- EnglishHo-fei
From Mandarin 合肥 (Héféi), Wade–Giles romanization: Ho²-fei².
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