Fenghuang
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English
Etymology
From Mandarin 鳳凰／凤凰 (Fènghuáng).
Proper noun
Fenghuang
- A county of Xiangxi prefecture, Hunan, China.
- 2007 August 14, “Bridge collapse in China kills at least 22”, in The New York Times, sourced from BEIJING Xinhua News Agency, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on June 02, 2024, Asia Pacific:
- The official Xinhua press agency said that 86 people were rescued, including the 22 who were injured when the 320-meter, or 1,050-foot, bridge spanning the Tuo River in Hunan Province collapsed Monday. The cause of the collapse was under investigation, it said.
The 43-meter-high bridge in Fenghuang County had four decorative stone arches and was scheduled to open at the end of this month, Xinhua said. […]
Part of the bridge collapsed across a highway linking Fenghuang County to an airport in the Tongren region of neighboring Guizhou Province, according to a notice posted on the local government Web site on Tuesday.