Xianfeng

Xian·feng
X8I1A1N1F4E1N1G2

proper noun

An era name of Qing, used in 1851 – 1861.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Sienfeng · alternative Hsien-feng

  1. An era name of Qing, used in 1851 – 1861.
  2. A county of the Enshi autonomous region, Hubei, China.

    In (Yui) commune, Hsienfeng County, Hupeh, at present 2,459 pigs are being raised and, on average, there are 4.2 pigs per household.

    [1971 March 17 [1971 March 12], “Hupeh Commune Hog Raising”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 52, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 9
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    His material is from the Tianheban Formation, a Redlichia trilobite-bearing Lower Cambrian unit at Zhongbao Village, Xianfeng County, Hubei Province, China; Zhang treated the bivalves from Hubei as pelecypods.

    2000, John Pojeta, Jr., “Cambrian Pelecypoda (Mollusca)”, in American Malacological Bulletin, volume 15, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 159, column 2

    She said that about twenty years ago she opened her first restaurant named Zhengzong Hezha Restaurant at her village, the Zhang Village, alongside the road which connects Enshi to Xianfeng County.

    2011, Xu Wu, “Hezha Restaurants”, in Farming, Cooking, and Eating Practices in the Central China Highland: How Hezha Foods Function to Establish Ethnic Identity, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44

Origin

  1. Mandarin咸豐
  2. EnglishXianfeng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 咸豐 (Xiánfēng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 咸豐
  • 咸豐 (haam⁴ fung¹)county in central China
Chinese Mandarin 咸豐
  • 咸豐 (Xiánfēng)county in central China

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APA

Xianfeng. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xianfeng

MLA

“Xianfeng.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xianfeng. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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