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Chiangling

Chiangling is the alternative form of Jiangling.

Meaning of Jiangling

Proper noun

Jiangling

  1. A county of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
    • CHINANCHENG,¹ five kilometres north of Kiangling County² town in Hupeh Province, was known as Ying³ during the Spring and Autumn (770-475 B.C.) and Warring States (475-221 B.C.) periods, when it was the capital of the State of Chu.⁴[1978, Peng Hao, “The Sword of the Price of Yueh Found in a Tomb of Chu in Kiangling”, in New Archaeological Finds in China (II): More Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution, 1st edition, Peking...

Origin of Chiangling

From Mandarin 江陵 (Jiānglíng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chiang¹-ling².

Questions about Chiangling

What is Chiangling the alternative form of?
Chiangling is the alternative form of Jiangling.

Words near Chiangling in the dictionary

  1. Chiang-tzu
  2. Chiang-wei
  3. Chiangchew
  4. Chiangism
  5. Chiangist
  6. Chiangling
  7. Chiangs
  8. Chiani
  9. Chianina
  10. Chianinas
  11. Chians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chiangling (page history and authors); Jiangling (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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