Ch'ü-fou

See also: Chufou

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 曲阜, Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻü-fou.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: chüʹfōʹ[1]

Proper noun

Ch'ü-fou

  1. Synonym of Qufu: A county-level city of Jining, Shandong, China.
    • 1913, Reginald Fleming Johnson, “The "Three Religions" of China”, in Buddhist China‎[2], London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 5:
      There are rumours that the state subsidies hitherto granted at regular intervals for the upkeep of the great sage's temple and tomb at Ch'ü-fou will perhaps be withdrawn, and that in the state schools and colleges reverence is no longer to be paid to the canonised representative of Chinese civilization and moral culture.

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Küfow or Ch’ü-fou”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 987, column 2
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