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Pinkiang

Syllables: Pin·kiang

Pinkiang proper noun: synonym of Harbin; used especially during Japanese rule (1934–1945).

Proper noun

Pinkiang

  1. Synonym of Harbin; used especially during Japanese rule (1934–1945)
    • Farther inland and adjoining these riverside districts is the new city of Harbin, which developed largely after the First World War. The population of the city increased eightfold from 40,500 in 1911 to 332,000 in 1931 and then doubled to 661,000 by 1940. The city was officially called Pinkiang...1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map : A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 229
    Synonyms:
    Harbin

Synonyms of Pinkiang

Origin of Pinkiang

From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 濱江 /滨江, from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

Questions about Pinkiang

What does Pinkiang mean?
Pinkiang means synonym of Harbin; used especially during Japanese rule (1934–1945).
What part of speech is Pinkiang?
Pinkiang is a proper noun.

Words near Pinkiang in the dictionary

  1. pinkgills
  2. Pinkham
  3. Pinkhams
  4. Pinkhasov
  5. Pinkhasovs
  6. Pinkiang
  7. pinkie
  8. pinkie finger
  9. pinkie fingers
  10. pinkie promise
  11. pinkie promised

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