Jiamao

Jia·mao
J8I1A1M3A1O1

proper noun

A town in Baoting, Hainan, China.

OriginMandarin 加茂 →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A town in Baoting, Hainan, China.

    In 2017, I visited a survivor, Chen Liancun, at Baoting County of Hainan Island.[...]At sixteen, she was abducted by Japanese soldiers and detained at the Jiamao military stronghold.

    2021, Peipei Qiu, “Chinese "Comfort Women"”, in Bárbara Mujica, editor, Collateral Damage: Women Write about War, University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=4q0BEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT93
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    This variety, sometimes know as [tha:i¹¹], is spoken by about 70,000-80,000 people who live mainly in the Jiamao township, Baoting County, and in adjacent areas of Lingshui and Qiongzhong counties.

    2008, The Tai-Kadai Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 639
  2. A Tai-Kadai language or possible language isolate spoken in southern Hainan, China.

    Pray that the scriptures will be translated into the Jiamao language.

    n.d., “The Jiamao of China”, in Bethany World Prayer Center, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2004
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    Language: The Jiamao language differs most from the other Li varieties and shares only about 40% of its lexicon with the other Li languages.

    2000, Paul Hattaway, Operation China: Introducing all the Pooples of China, Piquant, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 293

    Lauhut and Tongzha also cover fairly large areas, and Jiamao, while generally spoken in the southeastern end of the island, has pockets of speakers further north.

    2007, Peter K. Norquest, A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai, University of Arizona, archived from the original on 26 May 2018, page 33

Origin

  1. Mandarin加茂
  2. EnglishJiamao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 加茂 (Jiāmào).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 加茂
  • 加茂 (gaa¹ mau⁶)town; language
Chinese Mandarin 加茂
  • 加茂 (Jiāmào)town; language
French jiamao
  • jiamaotown; language
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APA

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

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

Chicago

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