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Chi-an

Chi-an is the alternative form of Ji'an.

Meaning of Ji'an

Proper noun (1)

Ji'an

  1. A prefecture-level city of Jiangxi, China.
    • The core area of the Central Soviet in southern Kiangsi in 1932 and 1933 stretched from Ch’angt’ing (Tingchow) and Shanghang in western Fukien on the east to Hsinfeng, Kanhsien, and Wanan in the west of Kiangsi, and from the border of Kwangtung in the south to just below Chian and Nanchang in...[1972, James Pinckney Harrison, “Growth of the Rural Soviets”, in The Long March to Power: A History of the Chinese Communist Party, 1921-72 (Praeger University Series), Praeger Publishers, →LCCN...

Proper noun (2)

Ji'an

  1. A county-level city of Tonghua, Jilin, China.
    • The journey to the monuments of the ancient Korean kingdom of Kao-kou-li (Kokurye, in Korean), in the Hsien of Chi-an, on the r. bank of the Ya-lu Chiang (Am-nok kang or Pul-ryu in Korean), can be made by either of two routes:[…][1912, Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea, Hachette & Company, →OCLC, page 246

Origin of Chi-an

From Mandarin 吉安 (Jí'ān) Wade–Giles romanization: Chi²-an¹.

Questions about Chi-an

What is Chi-an the alternative form of?
Chi-an is the alternative form of Ji'an.

Words near Chi-an in the dictionary

  1. chi distributions
  2. chi ko pek
  3. chi ko peks
  4. chi kofte
  5. chi kung
  6. Chi-an
  7. chi-by-eye
  8. chi-chi
  9. chi-ching
  10. Chi-chou
  11. Chi-hsi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chi-an (page history and authors); Ji'an (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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