Etymology

Kiukiang

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Mandarin 九江
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from九江
  2. English todayKiukiang

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 九江 (Jiǔjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

Words from the same roots

Mandarin九江 all →

Jiujiang

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.