Etymology

Kinhwa

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Mandarin 金華 /金华
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from金華 /金华
  2. English todayKinhwa

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 金華 /金华 (Jīnhuá, literally “golden flourishing”), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

Words from the same roots

Mandarin金華 all →

Jinhua

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.