Etymology

Jiangmen

Jiang·men
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Today it means: A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China. Full definition →

Mandarin 江門 /江门
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from江門 /江门
  2. English todayJiangmen

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江門 /江门 (Jiāngmén, literally “River Gate”), after its location at the mouth of the Xi or West River.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.