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