Meanings
- A prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
While there he received a wire from Tuan Ch’i-jui, who was at that time Minister of War and Premier, ordering him to station the bulk of his troops in the vicinity of Langfang, about halfway between Peking and Tientsin.
1966, James E. Sheridan, Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 631 more example
The city of Langfang in Hebei on Tuesday said its 4.9 million residents will be put under home quarantine for seven days and be subject to mass COVID-10 testing in the latest attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Two counties under Langfang’s jurisdiction that border Beijing, Guan and Sanhe, had already announced home quarantine measures.
2021 January 11, Jing Wang, Andrew Galbraith, Roxanne Liu, Lusha Zhang, Se Young Lee, “Another Chinese city goes into lockdown amid new COVID-19 threat”, in Michael Perry, Raju Gopalakrishnan, Sam Holmes, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2021, Healthcare & Pharma
Origin
- Mandarin廊坊
- EnglishLangfang
From Mandarin 廊坊 (Lángfáng).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 廊坊
- 廊坊prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 廊坊
- 廊坊 (Lángfáng)prefecture-level city
Cite this entry
Langfang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Langfang
“Langfang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Langfang. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Langfang,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Langfang.
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