Hoifung

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 海豐／海丰 (hoi² fung¹).

Pronunciation

• enPR: hoiʹfo͝ongʹ

Proper noun

Hoifung

1. Synonym of Haifeng: the Cantonese-derived name.
   • 1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882‎^[2], London: Luzac & Company, →OCLC, page 303:

     The capture, by the Taipings, of the Hoifung and Lukfung district cities (in the N.E. of Hongkong) in September, 1854, seriously interfered, for a time, with the market supplies of the Colony.

   • 1944, China Proper‎^[3], Volume I: Physical Geography, History and Peoples, Naval Intelligence Division, →OCLC, page 149:

     The railway from Canton to Kowloon reaches Tolo harbour in Mirs bay. The road from Waichow to Hoifung connects various centres some distance inland. It is of moderate quality and capable of carrying arms and transport to Pingshan, east of which it becomes very poor. There are branch roads from Hoifung to various centres in Honghai wan, and the road continues to Chaochow from Hoifung.

   • 1959, Walter A. Fairservis, Jr., The Origins of Oriental Civilization‎^[4], The New American Library, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 137‎^[5]:

     It will be noticed that in the chapters on China we have not described the situation as it is known in southern China, particularly around Hong Kong and Hoifung. The basic reason for this is that in general the affinities of the evidence from there are with Southeast Asia, though there are some suggestions of a limited contact with the North China Plain.[...]At Hoifung Father Raphael Maglioni made a number of discoveries of surface sites along the coast of the peninsula and inland from it from 1934 to 1940.