Etymology

Keelung

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Today it means: A city in north-eastern Taiwan. Full definition →

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The story

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.