Futian

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 福田 (Fútián).

Proper noun

Futian

1. A district of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
   • 2006 December 9, Edward Cody, “Public Shaming of Prostitutes Misfires in China”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 31, 2024‎^[2]:

     The spectacle, which took place Nov. 29 in the Shenzhen district of Futian, was in many ways unremarkable for a nation in which wrongdoers have long been subject to public humiliation.

   • 2019 February 7, Paul Mozur, Lin Qiqing, “How Facebook’s Tiny China Sales Floor Helps Generate Big Ad Money”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 February 2019, Technology‎^[4]:

     In Shenzhen’s Futian district, on the ninth floor of a concrete tower, there is an open-air sales floor that works as a sort of corporate embassy for the social network.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 福田 (Fútián)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can