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Kinhwa

Kinhwa is the alternative form of Jinhua.

Meaning of Jinhua

Proper noun

Jinhua

  1. A major city in central Zhejiang, in eastern China.
    • From Wenchow there was a bus route to Kinhua, the provincial capital; and from Kinhua a railroad led straight inland to Nanchang.[1941, Joy Homer, Dawn Watch in China, →OCLC, page 6

Origin of Kinhwa

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 金華 /金华 (Jīnhuá, literally “golden flourishing”), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

Questions about Kinhwa

What is Kinhwa the alternative form of?
Kinhwa is the alternative form of Jinhua.

Words near Kinhwa in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Kinhwa (page history and authors); Jinhua (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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