Meanings
alternative Kiangling · alternative Chiang-ling · alternative Chiangling
- A county of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
CHINANCHENG,¹ five kilometres north of Kiangling County² town in Hupeh Province, was known as Ying³ during the Spring and Autumn (770-475 B.C.) and Warring States (475-221 B.C.) periods, when it was the capital of the State of Chu.⁴
[1978, Peng Hao, “The Sword of the Price of Yueh Found in a Tomb of Chu in Kiangling”, in New Archaeological Finds in China (II): More Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution, 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, pages 43, 471 more example
The three were given jail sentences ranging from one and a half to 3 years for selling bogus vaccine that lead to the death of more than 500 pigs and losses of 328,250 yuan ($44,280) for a company in Jiangling county, in central Hubei province,[…]reported, citing a court official. Police in Jiangling had also charged a local vaccine inspection official with "dereliction of duty" for his involvement in the case, the paper added.
2007 November 9, “China jails 3 for selling fake pig disease vaccine”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 17 May 2021, Latest Crisis
Origin
- Mandarin江陵
- EnglishJiangling
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江陵 (Jiānglíng).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 江陵
- 江陵 (gong¹ ling⁴)county in central China
Chinese Mandarin 江陵
- 江陵 (Jiānglíng)county in central China
Cite this entry
Jiangling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jiangling
“Jiangling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jiangling. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Jiangling,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jiangling.
Source: Jiangling on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.