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Sungkiang

Sungkiang is the dated form of Songjiang.

Meaning of Songjiang

Proper noun

Songjiang

  1. A district of Shanghai, China, located along the Grand Canal and formerly the principal city of the region.
    • The explosion rocked the Riteng Computer Accessory Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pegatron, in Shanghai’s Songjiang district.[…]
    • Wu told the AP in China: “Our hearts go out to the people who were hurt in Songjiang. We are working closely with Pegatron to understand the cause of this accident.”2011 December 20, Hayley Tsukayama, “Report: Apple partner Pegatron under scrutiny after blast”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2011, Tech
  2. Various other minor towns and villages of China.
  3. Synonym of Song River, any of various minor rivers in China.
    Synonyms:
    Song River, any of various minor rivers in China
  4. (historical) A former province in China. Capital: Mudanjiang.

Origin of Sungkiang

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

Questions about Sungkiang

What is Sungkiang the dated form of?
Sungkiang is the dated form of Songjiang.

Words near Sungkiang in the dictionary

  1. sungest small
  2. Sungfow
  3. sungha
  4. sunghas
  5. sungka
  6. Sungkiang
  7. sunglade
  8. sunglades
  9. sunglass
  10. sunglassed
  11. sunglasses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sungkiang (page history and authors); Songjiang (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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