Ch'ü-fou en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- chüʹfōʹ
Etymology
From Mandarin 曲阜, Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻü-fou.
Meanings
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Synonym of Qufu: A county-level city of Jining, Shandong, China.
There are rumours that the state subsidies hitherto granted at regular intervals for the upkeep of the great sage's temple and tomb at Ch'ü-fou will perhaps be withdrawn, and that in the state schools and colleges reverence is no longer to be paid to the canonised representative of Chinese civilization and moral culture.
1913, Reginald Fleming Johnson, “The "Three Religions" of China”, in Buddhist China, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 5: