Wanfow

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English

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Etymology

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From Cantonese 雲浮云浮 (wan4 fau4).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Wanfow

  1. Synonym of Yunfu: the Cantonese-derived name
    • 1944 October 11, “Sino Counterblows Send Nips Reeling”, in The Stars and Stripes Mediterranean[2], Italy, →OCLC, page 1:
      The towns fell to Chinese troops who cut to the rear of the Japanese drive at a point near the Kwangtung-Kwangsi border. They were Loting, south of Wuchow, treaty port from which the Japs are heading westward towards Kweilin, and Wanfow, an adjoining community.
    • 1954, Review of Hong Kong Chinese Press[3], →OCLC, page 9:
      Only two years ago, he was still a student in the "First Middle School of Takhing", but was forced to leave school and return to Wanfow because his father, a landlord, was expropriated from all his land by the Communists during the "agrarian reform" and later died.
    • 1955, Union Research Service[4], volume 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
      When interrogating their prospects, some cadres spoke so curtly and carelessly that their questions provoked only laughter. For example, the following conversation occurred between a Party cadre and a member-prospect in Wanfow County:
    • 1988, Jean-Paul Wiest, Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918-1955[5], M. E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 218:
      Meanwhile the church of Wanfow was also returned to the Catholic Church and entrusted to Father Ma.

References

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  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Wanfow”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2058, column 3