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Kiangsu

Kiangsu is the alternative form of Jiangsu.

Meaning of Jiangsu

Proper noun

Jiangsu

  1. A province of China, northeast of the mouth of the Yangtze River. Capital: Nanjing.
    • Days before the Lunar New Year holiday began on Feb. 1, a video spread online from a village in Feng county, located in Jiangsu province on the coast.2022 February 19, Huizhong Wu, “Behind China’s Olympics, the saga of a chained woman unfolds”, in AP News, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2022

Forms of Kiangsu

alternative formKiang-su
alternative formKiang Su

Origin of Kiangsu

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 江蘇 /江苏 (Jiāngsū), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

Questions about Kiangsu

What is Kiangsu the alternative form of?
Kiangsu is the alternative form of Jiangsu.

Words near Kiangsu in the dictionary

  1. Kiang-su
  2. Kianga
  3. Kiangan
  4. kiangs
  5. Kiangsi
  6. Kiangsu
  7. Kiangyin
  8. Kiani
  9. Kianis
  10. kianse
  11. Kiaochow

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Kiangsu (page history and authors); Jiangsu (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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