Jinjiang

See also: jīnjiǎng and jìnjiǎng

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 晉江 / 晋江 (Jìnjiāng, Jin River).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʃɪnˈtʃ(i)æŋ/
  • (hyperforeign) IPA(key): /d͡ʒɪnˈd͡ʒ(i)æŋ/

Proper noun

Jinjiang

  1. A county-level city of Quanzhou, Fujian, China.
    • 2018 June 22, Paul Mozur, “Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 June 2018, Technology‎[2]:
      Jinhua and others are spending big to get there. In Jinjiang, a city in Fujian Province once known as a shoe-manufacturing center, Jinhua’s new factory is almost finished. Rising five stories and stretching several football fields long, the structure boasts 100,000 square feet of new office space.
    • 2018 August 6, “Taiwan’s Kinmen island begins importing water from China”, in AP News[3], archived from the original on 07 March 2023[4]:
      The Taiwanese-controlled island of Kinmen located just off the Chinese coast has begun importing water from its neighbor via a pipeline despite heightened tensions between Beijing and Taipei.
      Water from Jinjiang in China’s Fujian province began flowing through the 16-kilometer (10-mile)-long pipeline Sunday under a 30-year contract.
    • 2023 July 28, Bernard Orr, Yimou Lee, “Typhoon Doksuri destroys power lines, closes factories as it rips into China”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters[5], archived from the original on 28 July 2023, Asia Pacific‎[6]:
      Social media video showed eletrical power lines sparking and bursting into flames as winds thrashed Jinjiang, a city of two million, while in Quanzhou massive trees were uprooted and left in the middle of roads.

Synonyms

  • (from Hokkien) Chinkang, Chin-kang, Chin Kang

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