Yunfu

Yun·fu
Y4U1N1F4U1

proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.

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Meanings

proper noun

alternative Yün-fu

  1. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.

    China's 13 large foreign fertilizer plants ordered a few years ago are all scheduled to be in operation in a year or two.[…]China's biggest pyrite mine (openpit), being built in Yunfu, Kwangtung Province, was near completion.

    1978 November 9, K. P. Wang, “China's Mineral Economy”, in Chinese Economy Post-Mao: A Compendium of Papers, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 387
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    (44) WESTERN KUANGTUNG [...]Tatai Formation. Ferruginous sandstone interstratified with beds of limonite which contain Tertiary plants. A thick conglomerate or breccia cemented by ferruginous sands and clays forms the basal part. Typically developed at Tataiyung and Shanshuiwei in the vicinity of the city of Yunfu.

    1939, J. S. Lee, The Geology of China, London: Thomas Murby & Co., →OCLC, page 478

    The fields of Aoshi and surrounding hamlets have been swallowed up by economic development unfurling at breakneck speed across the plains and hills here in Guangdong province, about 175 miles northwest of Hong Kong. Like the stooped peasant working the soil, many farmers here have been reduced to tilling vacant strips along the borders of new buildings and construction sites, raising crops on ground that is no longer legally theirs to work. Their land, on the edge of fast-growing Yunfu city, has been marked for development, and they have been marked for obsolescence.

    2006 March 26, Edward Cody, “Bulldozed by Growth, Stonewalled by Government Pleas by Peasant Farmers for Fair Payment for Land Are Left Unanswered”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2017

    Mr. Yan, the general manager of Yunfu Citistone Manufactory, a maker of decorative tiles and wash basins located in Yunfu, a city in southern China’s Guangdong province, said he had resisted cutting prices even as each dollar in export revenue covered more renminbi of his costs.

    2014 April 25, Keith Bradsher, “A Policy-Making Mystery in the Renminbi’s Decline”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2014, International Business

    Synonyms: Wanfow, Yün-fou

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.

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Origin

  1. Mandarin雲浮 /云浮
  2. EnglishYunfu

Borrowed from Mandarin 雲浮 /云浮 (Yúnfú).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 雲浮 /云浮
  • 雲浮 /云浮 (wan⁴ fau⁴)city in Guangdong, China
Chinese Mandarin 雲浮 /云浮
  • 雲浮 /云浮 (Yúnfú)city in Guangdong, China
Korean 윈푸, 운부
  • 윈푸 (winpu)city in Guangdong, China
  • 운부 (unbu)city in Guangdong, China
Polish Yunfu
  • Yunfucity in Guangdong, China
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Yunfu,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yunfu.

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