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Kaixiangong

Syllables: Kai·xian·gong/ˌkaɪʃjænˈɡɒŋ/

Kaixiangong proper noun: a village in Qidu, Wujiang district, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.

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
    • At the time of Fei’s study, Kaihsienkung had two headmen. The elder of the two did not deal with the higher government, having allowed a younger man to fill the official post.[1958, Elman R. Service, Profiles in Ethnology, Harper & Row, published 1963, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 451

Forms of Kaixiangong

alternative formK'ai-hsien-kung
alternative formKaihsienkung

Origin of Kaixiangong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 開弦弓／开弦弓 (Kāixiángōng).

Questions about Kaixiangong

What does Kaixiangong mean?
Kaixiangong means a village in Qidu, Wujiang district, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
What part of speech is Kaixiangong?
Kaixiangong is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Kaixiangong?
Kaixiangong is pronounced /ˌkaɪʃjænˈɡɒŋ/.

Words near Kaixiangong in the dictionary

  1. kaivalya
  2. Kaivarta
  3. Kaivartas
  4. kaiwhiria
  5. Kaixian
  6. Kaixiangong
  7. Kaiya
  8. Kaiyang
  9. Kaiyuan
  10. kaizen
  11. kaizened

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