Fukang

See also: Fùkāng

English

Alternative forms

• Fu-k'ang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fuːˈkæŋ/, /fuːˈkɑŋ/

Proper noun

Fukang

1. A county-level city in Changji, Xinjiang, China.
   • 1927, Mildred Cable, Francesca French, Through Jade Gate and Central Asia‎^[1], Hodder and Stoughton, published 1937, →OCLC, page 255:

     Leaving the little "hsien" city of Fukang—"The Mound of Peace"—we realised with delight that only one more night in an inn lay between us and the Mission Compound in Urumchi, where we should find a bed, sheets, bathing facilities in the place of the small tin basin which we carried, and the possibilities of getting our clothes washed.

   • 1943, China at War‎^[2], volumes 10-11, China Information Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 29:

     Another mountain lake at Fukang will be tapped to water 45,000 mow of nothern Sinkiang farms.

   • 2005 July 12, Celine Sun, “At least 65 dead in Xinjiang coal mine explosion”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 31, 2024‎^[4]:

     The explosion occurred at 2.40am in the Shenlong mine, 38km east of the city of Fukang, when 87 miners were working underground.

   • 2014 July 15, Ben Blanchard, “Chinese city bans, destroys matches to fight terror”, in Michael Urquhart, editor, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 02 June 2022, Emerging Markets‎^[6]:

     Fukang, which sits near regional capital Urumqi, decided to remove all matches from circulation to ensure they are not used by “terrorist groups or individual extremists to carry out criminal activities”, the People’s Daily said on its website.
     Police destroyed 20,223 boxes of matches, which will ensure that the city maintains its current peaceful environment, the newspaper added, citing the local government.

Synonyms

• Fou-k'ang

Translations

city in Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阜康 (zh) (Fùkāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 푸캉시 (pukangsi)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fukang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1292, column 3