Jingang

See also: jīngāng and Jīngāng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 金剛山 / 金刚山 (Jīngāngshān).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: jǐnʹgängʹ

Proper noun

Jingang

  1. Synonym of Kumgang: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • 1983 July 29 [1983 July 28], “The People Yearn for Reunification [人民渴望统一]”, in Daily Report: China[1], volume I, number 147, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing RENMIN RIBAO p 6 (Archived), translation of original by Zhou Bizhong [周必忠] (in Chinese), →ISSN, →OCLC, page D 3[2]:
      In the city of Jiangyuanaogao[sic – meaning Gaocheng County, Jiangyuan Province or Kosong County, Kangwon Province (from Jiangyuan Dao Gaocheng Jun)] [3068 0626 6670 7559], located at the foot of the Jingang [6855 9474[sic – meaning 0474]] Mountains not far from the northern border of the military demarcation line, was the Sanripu [0005 2480 3184] cooperative farm.
      在江原道高城郡内金刚山麓,离军事分界线北侧不远,有个三日浦合作农场。
    • 2001, Jiazi Chen [陈家紫], 奇瑰异采 : 张大千: The Enigmatic Genius[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, column 1:
      In 1927, Chang visited Mount Jingang in Korea and met 15-year-old Chunhong.
    • [c. 2006, Zhao Huiji, ““July 1 Measures”: the Economic Survival Strategy”, in The Structural Crises and the Survival Strategies of North Korea[4], The National Bureau of Asian Research, archived from the original on 21 August 2020, pages 12–13[5]:
      In September, 2002, Xinyizhou was designated by the North Korean government as a special administrative region. In November of the same year, the standing committee of the Supreme People’s Congress passed “Kaicheng Industrial Region Act” and “Jingangshan Tourist Region Act”, designating the city of Kaicheng as a special industrial development area, and the region of Jingangshan as a special tourist area.]
    • 2008, Chu Shulong, Lin Xinzhu, “The Six Party Talks: A Chinese Perspective”, in Asian Perspective[6], volume 32, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 36[7]:
      Nevertheless, the DPRK leadership has thought about reform and openness for decades, and has made some relatively small and exemplary attempts: Kim Jong Il visited high-tech zones in Beijing and Shanghai; officials of the DPRK have taken "observation and learning" trips to the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in southern China; and North Korea has set up its own "special zones" in the Jingang Mountain area bordering South Korea, and in the Xinyizhou (Sinuiju) area bordering China.
    • 2010 [8th century], Tessa Morris-Suzuki, quoting Chengguan, “On the Move”, in To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred-Year Journey Through China and Korea[8], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:
      Diamond Mountain is a mountain called Jingang [in Chinese; pronounced Kumgang in Korean] located in the east of Haidong [Silla]. Although it is not wholly made of gold [jin], up, down, all around, and when you go into the mountain's precints it is all gold in the midsts of the sands of the flowing waters. When you look at it from a distance, the whole thing is golden.
    • 2017, Pedith Pui Chan, quoting Yu Jianhua, “The Appropriation of New Cultural Capital”, in The Making of a Modern Art World: Institutionalisation and Legitimisation of Guohua in Republican Shanghai[9], sourced from "Ji Zhang Daqian huazhan", 17, Shenbao, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 153:
      [Zhang Daqian's] Landscape paintings are the best, with regard to both quality and quantity. [] Fifteen life-paintings of the Jingang Mountains in Korea were particularly impressive. Daqian is fond of travelling.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jingang.