Etymology

Tsienkiang

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Mandarin 潛江 /潜江
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from潛江 /潜江
  2. English todayTsienkiang

From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 潛江 /潜江 (Qiánjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

Words from the same roots

Mandarin潛江 all →

Qianjiang

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.