T'uan-feng

A form of Tuanfeng — A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Tuanfeng.

    My friend Ch'iu Chang-ju of Ma-ch'eng traveled east to the Wu area, and then traveled back to T'uan-feng with thirty jars of water from Hui Mountain Stream.

    1992 [c. 1600], Yüan Hung-tao, translated by Jonathan Chaves, Pilgrim of the Clouds, Weatherhill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90
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    In the major sub-district administrative centers (chen) such as T'uan-feng, Yang-lo and Ts'ang-fu (which were also key economic centers) the Taipings stationed local officials and ordered that tax registers be compiled.

    1970, Philip A. Kuhn, Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 196

    Hothouse hydroponic cultivation of early rice seedling was a creation of the poor and lower-middle peasants of the agricultural scientific institute of the Hua-yuan fourth brigade, T'uan-feng commune, Huang-kang county, after undergoing the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and in the process of their production practice.

    1977 August 19 [1977 March 17], “Hupeh Succeeds in Hothouse Hyrdoponics For Cultivation of Paddy Rice Seedlings”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 391, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Hong Kong CHUNG-KUO HSIN-WEN, p 1, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 38

Origin

  1. Mandarin團風 /团风
  2. EnglishT'uan-feng

From Mandarin 團風 /团风 (Tuánfēng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻuan²-fêng¹.

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