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Kingmen

Kingmen is the alternative form of Jingmen.

Meaning of Jingmen

Proper noun

Jingmen

  1. A prefecture-level city of Hubei, China.
    • The surprise addition to the product portfolio of GEM, which has a factory in Jingmen in central Hubei, comes amid tight disinfectant supply after the virus outbreak that has killed more than 1,600 people in China, the company said in a Shenzhen Stock Exchange filing.2020 February 16, “China battery recycler GEM to make disinfectants in virus epicentre”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2023, TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Origin of Kingmen

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 荊門 /荆門 (Jīngmén), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

Questions about Kingmen

What is Kingmen the alternative form of?
Kingmen is the alternative form of Jingmen.

Words near Kingmen in the dictionary

  1. Kingman
  2. Kingman County
  3. Kingman Reef
  4. Kingman's formula
  5. Kingmas
  6. Kingmen
  7. Kingmoor
  8. Kingo
  9. Kingos
  10. Kingower
  11. kingpiece

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kingmen (page history and authors); Jingmen (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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