Jiading

See also: jiādīng, Jiādìng, and jiǎdìng

English
Jiading District in Shanghai

Alternative forms

Etymology

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 嘉定 (Jiādìng, literally “Commendable Order”), after one of the era names under Emperor Ningzong of the Song Dynasty.

Proper noun

Jiading

  1. A district of Shanghai, China.
    • [1978 December, “A County Weather Station”, in China Reconstructs‎, volume XXVII, number 12, Peking, OCLC 7513641, column 1:
      ONE evening at six o’clock, in the villages of Chiating county near Shanghai, the loudspeakers announced, "All communes and brigades take notice: Tonight there will be a heavy rain ..." This was the regular county forecast.]
  2. A subdistrict of Jiading, Shanghai, China.

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