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English
Etymology
From Cantonese 雲浮／云浮 (wan4 fau4).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Wanfow
- Synonym of Yunfu: the Cantonese-derived name
1944 October 11, “Sino Counterblows Send Nips Reeling”, in The Stars and Stripes Mediterranean, Italy, →OCLC, page 1:The towns fell to Chinese troops who cut to the rear of the Japanese drive at a point near the Kwangtung-Kwangsi border. They were Loting, south of Wuchow, treaty port from which the Japs are heading westward towards Kweilin, and Wanfow, an adjoining community.
1954, Review of Hong Kong Chinese Press, →OCLC, page 9:Only two years ago, he was still a student in the "First Middle School of Takhing", but was forced to leave school and return to Wanfow because his father, a landlord, was expropriated from all his land by the Communists during the "agrarian reform" and later died.
1955, Union Research Service, volume 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:When interrogating their prospects, some cadres spoke so curtly and carelessly that their questions provoked only laughter. For example, the following conversation occurred between a Party cadre and a member-prospect in Wanfow County:
1988, Jean-Paul Wiest, Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918-1955, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 218:Meanwhile the church of Wanfow was also returned to the Catholic Church and entrusted to Father Ma.
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