English
Xiangfu
Xiangfu comes from Mandarin 祥符.
- Mandarinmodern祥符
- Englishearliest quotation 1998Xiangfu
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Mandarinmodern祥符
- Englishearliest quotation 1998Xiangfu
Earliest quotation: 1998, Donald Daniel Leslie, Chinese Native Sources: “The local gazetteers of Xiangfu district, Kaifeng prefecture, and…”
Every English word from Mandarin 祥符
Today it means
name A district of Kaifeng, Henan, China.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 祥符 / Xiangfu