Ji'nan

A form of Jinan — A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Shandong, in eastern China.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. misspellingMisspelling of Jinan (Shandong, China).

    Still, next up may be the eastern city of Ji'nan^([sic – meaning Jinan]) in Shandong province, said Guo Qi, the executive producer of the Beijing Fringe Festival, now in its fourth year.

    2011 December 14, Didi Tang, “China Opens the Stage Curtains”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2011, Theater
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    7. The Japanese in Ji'nan^([sic – meaning Jinan]) put forward five demands on China, including that all Chinese troops should withdraw to a limit of twenty li from Ji'nan^([sic – meaning Jinan]) and from either side of the Ji'nan^([sic – meaning Jinan])-Qingdao railway; they demand a reply within twelve hours.

    1982, Colin Mackerras, Modern China: A Chronology from 1842 to the present, San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 320

    The northernmost of two roads around the Baiyun Mountains from the provincial capital, Ji'nan^([sic – meaning Jinan]) fifty miles to the west), to the thriving eighteenth- and nineteenth-century market town and silk-weaving center of Zhoucun and continuing on to Yantai on the Bohai Gulf, passed directly through Zouping town.

    1998, Andrew G. Walder, “Zouping in Perspective”, in Andrew G. Walder, editor, Zouping in Transition: The Process of Reform in Rural North China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 3

    Schall explained to him that it was impossible to go to Korea at that time because of hostilities between Koreans and the Manchus. Instead, he proposed that Caballero go to Ji'nan^([sic – meaning Jinan]), the capital of Shandong province (see maps 1 and 2), where there lived a small number of Christians who had recently been abandoned by the departure of a Jesuit priest.

    2001, D. E. Mungello, “The Trials and Endeavors of Father Antonio”, in The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 9–10

Origin

  1. Mandarin濟南 /济南
  2. EnglishJi'nan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 濟南 /济南 (Jǐnán) incorrectly as Jǐ'nán.

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APA

Ji'nan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ji'nan

MLA

“Ji'nan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ji'nan. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Ji'nan,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ji'nan.

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