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Chinkiang

Chinkiang is the alternative form of Zhenjiang.

Meaning of Zhenjiang

Proper noun

Zhenjiang

  1. A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, China.
    • In the second week of April, clashes between CCP and KMT affiliates became more violent. Interunion fights broke out in Canton, and in Chenchiang, Kiangsu, riots between unions left 150 dead and wounded.[1976, Donald A. Jordan, “The Party Divided”, in The Northern Expedition: China's National Revolution of 1926-1928, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 123
    Synonyms:
    Chenkong

Origin of Chinkiang

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 鎮江／镇江 (Zhènjiāng).

Words formed from Chinkiang

Questions about Chinkiang

What is Chinkiang the alternative form of?
Chinkiang is the alternative form of Zhenjiang.

Words near Chinkiang in the dictionary

  1. chinkerichee
  2. chinkerichees
  3. chinkerinchee
  4. chinkerinchees
  5. chinkers
  6. Chinkiang
  7. Chinkiang vinegar
  8. chinkie
  9. chinkier
  10. chinkies
  11. chinkiest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chinkiang (page history and authors); Zhenjiang (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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