Etymology

Kiangsu

K5I1A1N1G2S1U1
Mandarin 江蘇 /江苏
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from江蘇 /江苏
  2. English todayKiangsu

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 江蘇 /江苏 (Jiāngsū), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

Words from the same roots

Mandarin江蘇 all →

Jiangsu

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.