Etymology

Cianjin

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Today it means: A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Full definition →

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The story

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 前金 (Ciánjin).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.