Dengfeng

English

Alternative forms

• Teng-feng, Têng-fêng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 登封 (Dēngfēng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʌŋ.fʌŋ/, /dɛŋ.fɛŋ/, enPR: dǔngʹfǔngʹ

Proper noun

Dengfeng

1. A county-level city in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
   • 2008 August 31, David Barboza, quoting Mei Shuaiyuan, “In the mountains, another big Chinese extravaganza”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 December 2022‎^[3]:

     "Dengfeng city has the oldest mountain in China, Mount Song," Mei said. "It is the cradle of Zen in China; it has Shaolin; it has a very profound culture. They wanted to promote it, combining Zen and Shaolin together, to help boost tourism."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Dengfeng.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 登封 (zh) (Dēngfēng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dengfeng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 996, column 2