Jinjiang
English
Alternative forms
- Chin-chiang, Chinchiang (Wade–Giles)
- Tsinkiang (dated)
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
- 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
Translations
county-level city in Fujian