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Chin-shih

Chin-shih is the alternative form of Jinshi.

Meaning of Jinshi

Proper noun

Jinshi

  1. A county-level city of Changde, Hunan, China.
    • The centuries-old coins were first unearthed on a farm in the southern Hunan province in the 1960s, where they had been kept inside a small glazed pot. They arrived at Jinshi City's museum in the 1980s, and archaeologists have been puzzling over their markings ever since, the Xinhua news agency...2016 February 17, “China museum offers reward to decode historic coins”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2016, News from Elsewhere

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Origin of Chin-shih

From Mandarin 津市 (Jīnshì) Wade–Giles romanization: Chin¹-shih⁴.

Questions about Chin-shih

What is Chin-shih the alternative form of?
Chin-shih is the alternative form of Jinshi.

Words near Chin-shih in the dictionary

  1. Chin-hua
  2. Chin-men
  3. Chin-sha
  4. Chin-sha Chiang
  5. Chin-sha-chiang
  6. Chin-shih
  7. chin-up
  8. chin-up bar
  9. chin-up bars
  10. chin-ups
  11. chin-wag

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chin-shih (page history and authors); Jinshi (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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