The story
- Mandarin · borrowed from江蘇 /江苏“Jiangning [i.e., Nanjing] and Suzhou”
- English todayJiangsu
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江蘇 /江苏 (Jiāngsū, “Jiangning [i.e., Nanjing] and Suzhou”), from the province's two major cities.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.