Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Kaifeng.
The main character, Chao Hsing-te, has gone to K'ai-feng to take his Palace Examination.
1978, Yasushi Inoue, translated by Jean Oda Moy, Tun-huang, Kodansha International, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xi3 more examples
The capital, Kʻai-fêng Fu (開封府), is situated a few miles from the south bank of the Yellow River.
The Chinese Empire
[1904, C. D. Tenney, “中國 [Zhōngguó, The Chinese Empire]”, in Geography of Asia, New York: MacMillan and Co, →OCLC, page 10The eastern part of the city of K'ai-feng and is adjacent rural area was under the hsien of K'ai-feng; the western part and its adjacent rural area under that of Hsiang-fu (at first called Chün-i).
1975, John Winthrop Haeger, editor, Crisis and Prosperity in Sung China, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 61–62I was in China twenty years ago, filming a documentary on the last Chinese Jews of the old trading city K'ai-feng, located just south of Beijing.
2011, Gary Schwartz, The Impulse Economy : Understanding Mobile Shoppers and What Makes Them Buy, Atria Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33
Origin
- Mandarin開封 /开封
- EnglishK'ai-feng
From Mandarin 開封 /开封 (Kāifēng), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-fêng¹.
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