Xinfeng

See also: xìnfèng, xìnfēng, xīnfèng, Xīnfēng, and xīnfēng

English

Alternative forms

• Hsinfeng (Wade–Giles)
• Sinfong (Tongyong Pinyin)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新豐／新丰 (Xīnfēng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪnˈfɛŋ/, /ʃin-/, /-ˈfʌŋ/

Proper noun

Xinfeng

1. A rural township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan.
   • 2013 March 27, “43 Vietnamese stowaways found off Hsinchu”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-06-21, Society‎^[2]:

     Taiwan's Coast Guard found a drifting vessel with 43 Vietnamese stowaways on board off Xinfeng Township in Hsinchu County, a Coast Guard spokesman said Wednesday.

   • 2019 May 15, Liao Hsueh-ju, Sherry Hsiao, “Hsinchu exhibits Max Liu”, in Taipei Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 May 2019, Taiwan News, page 4‎^[4]:

     Cohosted by the Max Liu Culture and Art Foundation, the exhibition in Hsinchu County’s Xinfeng Township (新豐) features a range of Liu’s works, from self-portraits to paintings of the Po Yo Bird (婆憂鳥), Liu’s bird invention that is common in his work and based on a story told to him by his grandmother.

Translations

rural township

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新豐／新丰 (zh) (Xīnfēng)

Further reading

• Xinfeng, Hsin-feng, Hsinfeng at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.