Ho-fei
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See also: Hofei
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 合肥 (Héféi), Wade–Giles romanization: Ho²-fei².[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Ho-fei
- Alternative form of Hefei
- 1957, Edgar Snow, Random Notes on Red China[1], Harvard University Press, published 1968, →OCLC, →OL, page 134:
- In 1926 he left the school and returned to Shanghai. The Northern Expedition (of the Nationalist Revolution) had already begun. Nieh was sent back to Anhui, to the town of Ho-fei.
- 1978, Arthur F. Wright, The Sui Dynasty[2], New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 142–143:
- Han's camp was in the neighborhood of the modern Ho-fei in central Anhwei province, and his troops had a relatively easy march south and east to the north bank of the Yangtze opposite a point near the modern city of Wuhu.
- 2010, Arthur W. Hummel Sr., editor, Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912)[3], volume 1, Global Oriental, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 348:
- HUANG Tê-kung 黃得功 (T. 滸山, 虎山), d. 1645, June 15, Ming loyalist general, was a native of Kʻai-yüan, (Liao-ning), to which place his ancestors had moved from Ho-fei, Anhwei.
Translations
[edit]Hefei — see Hefei
References
[edit]- ^ Hefei, Wade-Giles romanization Ho-fei, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
[edit]- “Ho-fei” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.