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Chi-nan

Chi-nan is the alternative form of Jinan.

Meaning of Jinan

Proper noun (1)

Jinan

  1. A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Shandong, in eastern China.
    • On the outskirts of Jinan, capital of eastern Shandong province, a billion cockroaches are being fed with 50 tonnes of kitchen waste a day - the equivalent in weight to seven adult elephants.2018 December 10, Thomas Suen, Ryan Woo, “Bug business - Cockroaches corralled by the millions in China to crunch waste”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2025
    Synonyms:
    Tsinanfu

Proper noun (2)

Jinan

  1. A town in Jingzhou district, Jingzhou, Hubei, in central China.
  2. The ancient capital of the former State of Chu in modern Hubei, China.

Origin of Chi-nan

From Mandarin 濟南 /济南 (Jǐnán), Wade–Giles romanization: Chi³-nan².

Questions about Chi-nan

What is Chi-nan the alternative form of?
Chi-nan is the alternative form of Jinan.

Words near Chi-nan in the dictionary

  1. chi-iked
  2. chi-ikes
  3. chi-iking
  4. Chi-lin
  5. Chi-lung
  6. Chi-nan
  7. Chi-ning
  8. chi-rho
  9. chi-rhos
  10. chi-square
  11. chi-square distribution

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Chi-nan (page history and authors); Jinan (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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