Yunfu

• (from Wade–Giles) Yün-fu

From Mandarin 雲浮／云浮 (Yúnfú).

Yunfu

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China.
   • 1939, J. S. Lee, The Geology of China‎, London: Thomas Murby & Co., →OCLC, page 478:

     (44) WESTERN KUANGTUNG
     [...]Tatai Formation. Ferruginous sandstone interstratified with beds of limonite which contain Tertiary plants. A thick conglomerate or breccia cemented by ferruginous sands and clays forms the basal part. Typically developed at Tataiyung and Shanshuiwei in the vicinity of the city of Yunfu.

   • 1978 November 9, K. P. Wang, “China's Mineral Economy”, in Chinese Economy Post-Mao: A Compendium of Papers‎, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 387:

     China's 13 large foreign fertilizer plants ordered a few years ago are all scheduled to be in operation in a year or two. […] China's biggest pyrite mine (openpit), being built in Yunfu, Kwangtung Province, was near completion.

   • 2014 April 25, Bradsher, Keith, “A Policy-Making Mystery in the Renminbi’s Decline”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-04-26, International Business‎:

     Mr. Yan, the general manager of Yunfu Citistone Manufactory, a maker of decorative tiles and wash basins located in Yunfu, a city in southern China’s Guangdong province, said he had resisted cutting prices even as each dollar in export revenue covered more renminbi of his costs.

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• (from Cantonese) Wanfow
• Yün-fou

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yunfu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3540, column 3