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Kiangyin

Kiangyin is the dated form of Jiangyin.

Meaning of Jiangyin

Proper noun

Jiangyin

  1. A county-level city of Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
    • The leader of a small bandit gang from the county of Chiang-yin on the south bank of the Yangtze fled north to Chang Shih-ch’eng’s camp in 1354 or 1355 to seek his help in putting down a rival.[1962, F. W. Mote, “The Man of the Green Hill”, in The Poet Kao Chʻi, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 60

Origin of Kiangyin

The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 江陰／江阴 (Jiāngyīn).

Questions about Kiangyin

What is Kiangyin the dated form of?
Kiangyin is the dated form of Jiangyin.

Words near Kiangyin in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kiangyin (page history and authors); Jiangyin (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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