Ho-fei

See also: Hofei

English

Map including HO-FEI (LUCHOW) (AMS, 1961)

Etymology

From Mandarin 合肥 (Héféi), Wade–Giles romanization: Ho²-fei².

Proper noun

Ho-fei

1. 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

Hefei — see Hefei

Further reading

• “Ho-fei” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.