Kaifeng

[ kahy-fuhng ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Pinyin, Wade-Giles.

Kaifeng

/ ˈkaɪˈfɛŋ /

a city in E China, in N Henan on the Yellow River: one of the oldest cities in China and its capital (as Pien-liang) from 907 to 1126. Pop: 810 000 (2005 est)

He is one of just over a dozen Kaifeng Jews to convert in Israel after several years of studying.

The latter is forty miles west of Kaifeng and a short distance above a bend in the Hoang-Ho.

Several miles south of Kaifeng the flood struck a large river which there joins the Lu-chia.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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