Jiangsu
See also: Jiāngsū
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 江蘇／江苏 (Jiāngsū, “Jiangning [i.e., Nanjing] and Suzhou”), from the province's two major cities.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uː
Proper noun
Jiangsu
- A province of China, northeast of the mouth of the Yangtze River. Capital: Nanjing.
- Meronym: Nanjing
- 2022 February 19, Wu, Huizhong, “Behind China’s Olympics, the saga of a chained woman unfolds”, in AP News, archived from the original on 19 February 2022:
- Days before the Lunar New Year holiday began on Feb. 1, a video spread online from a village in Feng county, located in Jiangsu province on the coast. It showed a woman with a chain around her neck. […]
The county government said the woman’s name was “Xiaohuamei,” or Little Plum Blossom, and that she had been brought to Jiangsu for medical treatment from a remote part of Yunnan province near Myanmar. […]
Little Plum Blossom has been taken to a hospital for now, according to CCTV. And on Thursday, the Jiangsu provincial government said it planned to send a team to investigate.
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Chinese province
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References
- “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, LCCN 79-42627, OCLC 781411242, pages 476, 477: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Chiang-su (Jiangsu) 江蘇”
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