Feng

See also: feng, féng, fèng, fēng, and fěng

English

Etymology 1

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 灃 / 沣 (Fēng) and, as the city and surname, its alternative form 豐 / 丰 (Fēng).

Proper noun

Feng

1. A river in Shaanxi Province, China.
2. (historical) A former capital of China under the Zhou Dynasty, now within Xi'an, Shaanxi.
3. A surname from Mandarin.

Synonyms

• (former capital): Fengjing, Fengxi

Hypernyms

• (former capital): Fenghao

Coordinate terms

• (former capital): Hao, Haojing, Zongzhou

Translations

River in Shaanxi Province, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 灃水 / 沣水 (zh)

Statistics

According to the 2010 United States Census, Feng (from all its origins) is the 3351^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 10687 individuals. Feng is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (96.4%) individuals.

Etymology 2

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 馮 / 冯 (Féng). Doublet of Fung and Phung.

Proper noun

Feng (plural Fengs)

1. A surname from Mandarin.
   • 1966, James E. Sheridan, Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang‎^[1], Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69:

     At the time Feng Yü-hsiang arrived in Pukow, Feng Kuo-chang had seemed to be gaining the upper hand over Tuan and his clique.

Translations

Translations

• Chinese: 馮 / 冯 (zh)

  Cantonese: 馮 / 冯 (fung⁴)

  Hakka: 馮 / 冯 (pung²)

  Mandarin: 馮 / 冯 (zh) (Féng)

• Indonesian: Fung, Phung
• Tagalog: Fung
• Vietnamese: Phùng, 馮

Statistics

According to the 2010 United States Census, Feng (from all its origins) is the 3351^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 10687 individuals. Feng is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (96.4%) individuals.

Etymology 3

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 鳳 / 凤 (Fèng).

Proper noun

Feng

1. A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1975 [1975 June 20], Survey of People's Republic of China Press‎^[2], United States Consulate General (Hong Kong), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 58:

     In the movement to study the theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the militia company of Lienfangszu production brigade under the Nanhsing commune in Feng county, Shensi Province, organized the militiamen to take part in class struggle in society, hit out at the sabotaging activities of the class enemies and criticized the tendency toward capitalism, revisionism and the doctrines […]

   • 2014, Minority Education in China: Balancing Unity and Diversity in an Era of Critical Pluralism‎^[3], Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 315:

     Seeking to demonstrate that the case of He Chuanyang and other Chongqing students were not unique, a widely circulated post, entitled "One after another, they change their race" rehashed a 2008 story of ethnic-based corruption in Feng County in Shaanxi Province (Hanwu tianxia 2009). Following a decline in the local economy, construction company officials encouraged the Feng County government to construct a "Qiang ethnic native village" (Qiangzu guli 羌族故里) to open up new sources of revenue while nominally boasting local tourism.

   • 2015 March 27, Angela Meng, “Around the nation: President Xi Jinping’s ‘China dream’ fires model maker’s imagination”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 March 2015, China Insider‎^[5]:

     SHAANXI […]
     The policeman, named Liu Zhi, spotted the boy sitting weeping in the street, with an empty bottle of poison beside him, as he drove to work in Feng county.

   • 2017 May, Feng Shen, Renmei Liao, Amjad Ali, Amanullah Mahar, Di Guo, Ronghua Li, Sun Xining, Mukesh Kumar Awasthi, Quan Wang, Zengqiang Zhang, “Spatial distribution and risk assessment of heavy metals in soil near a Pb/Zn smelter in Feng County, China”, in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety‎^[6], volume 139, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     A large scale survey and a small scale continuous monitoring was conducted to evaluate the impact of Pb/Zn smelting on soil heavy metals (HMs) accumulation and potential ecological risk in Feng County, Shaanxi province of China.

   • 2017, Hua Linfu, Paul D. Buell, Paul U. Unschuld, Ben Cao Gang Mu Dictionary‎^[7], volume 2, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 101:

     The seat of administration was in present-day Feng zhou 鳳州 town, located northeast of Feng 鳳 county in Shaan xi 陝西. The territory administered comprised Feng county in present-day Shaan xi, and the two present-day counties of Hui 徽縣 and Liang dang 兩當 in Gan su 甘肅.

   • 2022 March 3, “Police in China's Shaanxi detain man amid investigation into caged woman”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia‎^[8], archived from the original on 03 March 2022‎^[9]:

     Shaanxi-based current affairs commentator Huang Ping said the caged woman's case had shown that the Feng county chained woman's case was just the tip of the iceberg, and involved the collusion of local officials.

   • 2022 July 26, Mimi Lau, “Chinese human rights lawyer Chang Weiping in closed-door trial as family barred from county”, in South China Morning Post‎^[10], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 July 2022, Politics‎^[11]:

     The 38-year-old lawyer was accused of subversion of state power, according to a trial notice issued by the Baoji Municipality Intermediate People Court last week. Chang’s case was heard at Fengxian People’s Court in the northwest of the country. […]
     Chen, an oncology researcher at a Shenzhen hospital, flew with their eight-year-old son and her mother, 62, to Xian, rented a car at the airport and drove four hours to attend the hearing. But she said they were stopped from entering Feng county, where it was held.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Feng.
2. A surname from Mandarin.

Synonyms

• Fengxian (county)

Translations

county & surname

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鳳 / 凤 (zh) (Fèng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Statistics

According to the 2010 United States Census, Feng (from all its origins) is the 3351^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 10687 individuals. Feng is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (96.4%) individuals.

References

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Feng Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[12], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1215, column 3