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Kienow

Kienow is the dated form of Jian'ou.

Meaning of Jian'ou

Proper noun

Jian'ou

  1. A county-level city of Nanping, Fujian, China.
    • After clearing the Japanese outside coastline a sufficient distance, a general westerly course will be set for one or more of the following airports in China: Chuchow, Chuchow (Lishui), Yushan and/or Chienou. Chuchow is about seventy miles inland and two hundred miles to the south southwest of...[1964, Carroll V. Glines, “The Preparation”, in Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders, D. Van Nostrand Company, →OCLC, page 38

Proper noun

Kienow

  1. A surname.

Origin of Kienow

Borrowed from Mandarin 建甌／建瓯 (Jiàn'ōu).

Questions about Kienow

What does Kienow mean?
Kienow means a surname.
What is Kienow the dated form of?
Kienow is the dated form of Jian'ou.
What part of speech is Kienow?
Kienow is a proper noun.

Words near Kienow in the dictionary

  1. Kienböck's disease
  2. Kienchang
  3. Kienitz
  4. Kienitzes
  5. Kienning
  6. Kienow
  7. Kiens
  8. Kienshih
  9. Kienyang
  10. Kienzle
  11. Kienzles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kienow (page history and authors); Jian'ou (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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