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Chiang-su

Chiang-su is the alternative form of Jiangsu.

Meaning of Jiangsu

Proper noun

Jiangsu

  1. A province of China, northeast of the mouth of the Yangtze River. Capital: Nanjing.
    • Days before the Lunar New Year holiday began on Feb. 1, a video spread online from a village in Feng county, located in Jiangsu province on the coast.2022 February 19, Huizhong Wu, “Behind China’s Olympics, the saga of a chained woman unfolds”, in AP News, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2022

Origin of Chiang-su

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 江蘇 /江苏 (Jiāngsū, “Jiangning [i.e., Nanjing] and Suzhou”) Wade–Giles romanization: Chiang¹-su¹, from the province's two major cities.

Questions about Chiang-su

What is Chiang-su the alternative form of?
Chiang-su is the alternative form of Jiangsu.

Words near Chiang-su in the dictionary

  1. Chiang-han
  2. Chiang-hoa
  3. Chiang-hsi
  4. Chiang-ling
  5. Chiang-men
  6. Chiang-su
  7. Chiang-tzu
  8. Chiang-wei
  9. Chiangchew
  10. Chiangism
  11. Chiangist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chiang-su (page history and authors); Jiangsu (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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