Etymology

Tsingkiangpu

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Mandarin 清江浦
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from清江浦
  2. English todayTsingkiangpu

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

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.