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Kincheng

Kincheng is the alternative form of Jincheng.

Meaning of Jincheng

Proper noun (1)

Jincheng

  1. An urban township, the county seat of Kinmen County, Taiwan.
    • Kinmen is the main island, and Jincheng is Kinmen’s main town, offering most of the accommodation and other services. Here you'll also find Jyuguanglou, one of a number of monuments, buildings, and museums glorifying and memorializing the feats of Taiwan’s military against mainland China.2007, Phil Macdonald, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan, 2nd edition (Travel), National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 200, column 1

Proper noun (2)

Jincheng

  1. A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
    • A sprawling, mountainous administrative region in the south of Shanxi province, Jincheng is still dominated by coal. Though many pits have been shut, the craggy landscape bears the scars of decades of excessive mining.2018 November 26, David Stanway, Joseph Campbell, Muyu Xu, Shanghai newsroom, “Smog war casualty: China coal city bears brunt of pollution crackdown”, in Philip McClellan, editor, Reuters, archived...

Origin of Kincheng

From the Nanking court dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of Mandarin 金城 (Jīnchéng), from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/.

Questions about Kincheng

What is Kincheng the alternative form of?
Kincheng is the alternative form of Jincheng.

Words near Kincheng in the dictionary

  1. kinchay
  2. Kinchela
  3. Kincheloe
  4. Kincheloes
  5. Kinchen
  6. Kincheng
  7. Kinchens
  8. Kinches
  9. kinchin
  10. kinchin cove
  11. kinchin coves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kincheng (page history and authors); Jincheng (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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