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Chekiang

/d͡ʒəˈd͡ʒjɑŋ/UK/t͡ʃɛˈkjæŋ/

Chekiang is the alternative form of Zhejiang.

Meaning of Zhejiang

Proper noun

Zhejiang

  1. A coastal province in eastern China, running from Hangzhou Bay to Fujian. Capital: Hangzhou.
    • The kiln site actually responsible for such refinement has so far not been located. Shao-hsing, Chechiang Province, is commonly considered their point of origin since so many jars have been unearthed from tombs in that district.[...]It would take until the late third century for the potters of...[1982, Jenifer Neils, editor, The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 85

Origin of Chekiang

From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 浙江 (Zhèjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ], with the word itself from a former name of the Qiantang River.

Words formed from Chekiang

Questions about Chekiang

What is Chekiang the alternative form of?
Chekiang is the alternative form of Zhejiang.
How do you pronounce Chekiang?
Chekiang is pronounced /t͡ʃɛˈkjæŋ/ (UK).

Words near Chekiang in the dictionary

  1. Chekhova
  2. Chekhovian
  3. chekhovichite
  4. Chekhovo
  5. cheki
  6. Chekiang
  7. Chekiangese
  8. chekis
  9. Chekist
  10. Chekists
  11. chekmak

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Chekiang (page history and authors); Zhejiang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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