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Chinan

Chinan 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.

Questions about Chinan

What is Chinan the alternative form of?
Chinan is the alternative form of Jinan.

Words near Chinan in the dictionary

  1. chinamen
  2. Chinamen on their backs
  3. Chinamen's chances
  4. chinampa
  5. chinampas
  6. Chinan
  7. Chinandega
  8. Chinangin
  9. Chinantec
  10. Chinantecan
  11. Chinantecs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chinan (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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