English Explanatory Dictionary

Sungkiang

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Dated form of Songjiang: a district and former county of Shanghai, China.
  2. Dated form of Songjiang: a former province of China.

Pronunciation

so͞ongʹgyängʹ so͞ongʹjē-ängʹ

Word forms

Sungkiang

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 松江 (Sōngjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

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