The story
- Mandarin · borrowed from介休“Jie's Rest”
- English todayJiexiu
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 介休 (Jièxiū, “Jie's Rest”). Supposedly named by Ji Chong'er, the Wen Duke of Jin, in his remorse for having killed his loyal subject Jie Zhitui and Jie's mother with an intentional forest fire in the region.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.