kiang

Noun

kiang (plural kiangs)

1. A large wild ass, Equus kiang, native to the Tibetan Plateau.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Kiang

IPA/kjɑŋ/

Kiang

1. (obsolete) Obsolete form of Jiang.
2. (obsolete) Synonym of Yangtze, the chief river of central China.
   • All China was formerly divided by the Chineſe Emperour Xunus into 12 Provinces; afterwards the Emperour Yua, who took upon him the Government after the death of Xunus, about 260 years before the Incarnation of our Saviour, reduced all China into Nine Provinces, which only at that time comprehended...1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of...
   • The series of these great events began in the year 1333, fifteen years before the plague broke out in Europe: they first appeared in China. Here a parching drought, accompanied by famine, commenced in the tract of country watered by the rivers Kiang and Hoai.1888, J. F. C. Hecker, “Causes.-Spread.”, in B. G. Babington, transl., The Black Death and the Dancing Mania, →OCLC, page 24

   Synonyms:

   Yangtze

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Kiang

Kiang (plural Kiangs)

1. A surname from Chinese.