Jingjiang
English
Alternative forms
- Ching-chiang (Wade–Giles)
- Tsingkiang (Postal Romanization)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 靖江 (Jìngjiāng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒɪŋˈd͡ʒ(i)æŋ/
Proper noun
Jingjiang
- A county-level city of Taizhou, Jiangsu, China.
- [1975 February, “Deltas”, in China Reconstructs[1], volume XXIV, number 2, Peking: China Welfare Institute, →OCLC, page 38, column 2:
- Chingchiang county was once a large sandy island that became a part of the north shore in the first half of the 17th century. Chungming Island was close to the south shore two centuries ago, but today it is separated from the north shore by only a narrow strip of water and is still moving closer to it.]
- 2016 April 22, Brenda Goh, Elias Glenn, Beijing newsroom, Michael Martina, Pete Sweeney, “China local government says chemical fire under control, no casualties”, in Ed Davies, editor, Reuters[2], archived from the original on 07 March 2023, EMERGING MARKETS[3]:
- The government of Jingjiang city in China's eastern Jiangsu province said on Friday that a fire at a chemical plant had been put under control and there were no casualties.
- 2017 September 24, Mimi Lau, “Wang Quanzhang: the last ‘709’ lawyer left in China’s legal limbo”, in South China Morning Post[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 September 2017, Policies & Politics[5]:
- Many of the dozens of people who stood outside a courthouse in Jingjiang, eastern China’s Jiangsu province, four years ago had never met the man they were demanding to be released.
Translations
county-level city of Jiangsu, China
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jingjiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1450, column 2