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Chien-shih

Chien-shih is the alternative form of Jianshi.

Meaning of Jianshi

Proper noun (1)

Jianshi

  1. A county of Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
    • During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution over 200 teeth of the giant ape were found in Chienshih County, Hupeh Province, and Pama County, the Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region.[1975, “The Giant Ape”, in China Pictorial, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44, column 3

Proper noun (2)

Jianshi

  1. A mountain indigenous township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan.
    • As a severe cold wave sweeps across Taiwan, snowfall was reported at several locations in the country, including the Mingchih forest recreation area in Yilan County and high-elevation areas in Jianshi Township, Hsinchu County.[…]
    • Hsinchu County Councilor Liu Chien-ming (劉建民) told CNA that high-elevation areas in Jianshi Township, such as Llyung, Tayax villages and Lidong Mountain, had seen snowfall Tuesday evening into midnight, but as the moisture was not sufficient, there was no snow cover to speak of.2023 January 25, George Liao, “Snow falls at Mingchih, Jianshi in northern Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2024

Origin of Chien-shih

From Mandarin 建始 (Jiànshǐ), Wade–Giles romanization: Chien⁴-shih³.

Questions about Chien-shih

What is Chien-shih the alternative form of?
Chien-shih is the alternative form of Jianshi.

Words near Chien-shih in the dictionary

  1. Chiemgauers
  2. Chiems
  3. Chien
  4. Chien ware
  5. Chien-ou
  6. Chien-shih
  7. Chienchen
  8. Chienchin
  9. Chieng
  10. chiengora
  11. Chiengs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chien-shih (page history and authors); Jianshi (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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