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Kinhu

Kinhu is the alternative form of Jinhu.

Meaning of Jinhu

Proper noun

Jinhu

  1. A county of Huai'an, Jiangsu, China.
    • The government of Jinhu County in Jiangsu Province said on Friday that 145 children had received oral polio vaccines after their December expiration date.2019 January 14, Sui-Lee Wee, Elsie Chen, “China Investigates Latest Vaccine Scandal After Violent Protests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2025, Business
  2. An urban township in Kinmen County, Taiwan.
    • Erected in 1812, the Memorial Arch to Ciou Liang-gong’s (Qiu Liang-gong) Mother, on Jyuguang (Juguang) Road in Jinhu District, to the east of Jinning, celebrates the virtuous mother of Ciou Liang-song^([sic – meaning Liang-gong]) (Qiu Liang-gong), a governor-general of Zhejiang province in mainland...2007, Phil Macdonald, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan, 2nd edition (Travel), National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 201–202

Origin of Kinhu

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

Questions about Kinhu

What is Kinhu the alternative form of?
Kinhu is the alternative form of Jinhu.

Words near Kinhu in the dictionary

  1. Kingyang
  2. Kinh
  3. kinhin
  4. kinhood
  5. Kinhs
  6. Kinhu
  7. Kinhwa
  8. kinic
  9. kinic acid
  10. kinichilite
  11. kinickinic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kinhu (page history and authors); Jinhu (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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