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Kiukiang

Kiukiang is the alternative form of Jiujiang.

Meaning of Jiujiang

Proper noun (1)

Jiujiang

  1. A prefecture-level city of Jiangxi, China.
    • The Yangtze divides Jiujiang in Jiangxi province and Huanggang in neighbouring Hubei, one of the cities hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak and now sealed off from the rest of China to try to contain it.2020 January 31, Martin Pollard, Thomas Peter, David Stanway, “Travellers beat China virus lockdown via bridge over the Yangtze”, in Stephen Coates, Mike Collett-White, editors, Reuters, archived...
  2. A town in Nanhai district, Foshan, Guangdong, China.

Proper noun (2)

Jiujiang

  1. A district of Wuhu, Anhui, China.

Origin of Kiukiang

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 九江 (Jiǔjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

Questions about Kiukiang

What is Kiukiang the alternative form of?
Kiukiang is the alternative form of Jiujiang.

Words near Kiukiang in the dictionary

  1. Kitzmiller
  2. Kitáb-i-Aqdas
  3. Kitáb-i-Íqán
  4. Kiua
  5. Kiuchüan
  6. Kiukiang
  7. KIV
  8. kiva
  9. Kivallirmiut
  10. kivas
  11. kive

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Kiukiang (page history and authors); Jiujiang (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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