Tsienkiang

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Alternative form of Qianjiang.

Word forms

Tsienkiang Tsienkiáng

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 潛江 /潜江 (Qiánjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

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