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Kaihsienkung

Kaihsienkung is the alternative form of Kaixiangong.

Meaning of Kaixiangong

Proper noun

Kaixiangong

  1. A village in Qidu, Wujiang district, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
    • The village chosen for my investigation is called Kaihsienkung, locally pronounced kejiug’on. It is situated on the south-east bank of Lake Tai, in the lower course of the Yangtze River and about eighty miles west of Shanghai.[1939, Hsiao-tung (費孝通) Fei, 江村經濟 [Peasant Life in China], London: George Routledge and Sons, →OCLC, →OL, pages 9–10

Origin of Kaihsienkung

From Mandarin 開弦弓 /开弦弓 (Kāixiángōng), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-hsien²-kung¹.

Questions about Kaihsienkung

What is Kaihsienkung the alternative form of?
Kaihsienkung is the alternative form of Kaixiangong.

Words near Kaihsienkung in the dictionary

  1. Kaifu
  2. kaigai niki
  3. kaigai-niki
  4. Kaigler
  5. Kaiglers
  6. Kaihsienkung
  7. kaijin
  8. kaijins
  9. kaiju
  10. kaijus
  11. kaik

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kaihsienkung (page history and authors); Kaixiangong (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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