Etymology

Kinsha

K5I1N1S1H4A1
Mandarin 金沙
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from金沙
  2. English todayKinsha

From the Nanking court dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of Mandarin 金沙 (Jīnshā), from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.