Jiangmen

Jiang·men
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/d͡ʒɑŋ.mɛn/

proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.

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KongmoonKong MoonKiangmoon
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Meanings

proper noun

alternative Chiang-men

  1. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
    2 more examples

    Recently, the largest high voltage electric power transmission line has been installed from Maoming to Chiangmen.[…]It is through this high voltage power line that the Maoming Thermoelectric Power Plant supplies the Pearl River Delta with a continuous flow of strong electric current. At the terminal of the line, Chiangmen City, a 220,000 volt transformer unit has been built to lower the voltage of this strong current for local users.

    陳正祥

    [1979 May 9 [1978 May], “Topography of Kwangtung”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 519, United States Joint Publications Research Service, translation of Kuang-tung Ti-chih. Hong Kong, T'ien-ti Books, Ltd. by Ch'en Cheng-hsiang [7115 2973 4382] [陳正祥] (in Chinese), →OCLC, page 62

    In the Internet age, in which the Chinese public is becoming increasingly vocal about their rights and mobilizing on social networks, popular protests like the demonstrations in the city of Jiangmen against the processing plant suggest a wider backlash against nuclear power.[…] The uranium processing project in Jiangmen, near Hong Kong, was supposed to supply fuel to existing and future power plants in Guangdong, a major Chinese industrial powerhouse and a center of nuclear energy expansion.

    2013 July 18, Charlie Zhu, David Stanway, Grace Li, Lavinia Mo, “Public trust crisis threatens China's nuclear power ambitions”, in David Lague, Alex Richardson, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2022, Environment

    Synonyms: Kongmoon, Kong Moon, Kiangmoon

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.

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KongmoonKong MoonKiangmoon

Origin

  1. Mandarin江門 /江门
  2. EnglishJiangmen

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江門 /江门 (Jiāngmén, literally “River Gate”), after its location at the mouth of the Xi or West River.

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Translations

Arabic جْيَانْغْمِن, جْيَانْغْمِين
  • جْيَانْغْمِن (jyanḡmen)a city of China
  • جْيَانْغْمِين (jyanḡmīn)a city of China
Chinese Cantonese 江門 /江门
  • 江門 /江门 (gong¹ mun⁴)a city of China
Chinese Mandarin 江門 /江门
  • 江門 /江门 (Jiāngmén)a city of China
Hungarian Csiangmen
  • Csiangmena city of China
Japanese 江門
  • 江門 (Kōmon)a city of China
Korean 장먼, 강문
  • 장먼 (Jangmeon)a city of China
  • 강문 (Gangmun)a city of China
Russian Цзянмэ́нь
  • Цзянмэ́нь (Czjanmɛ́nʹ)a city of China
Vietnamese Giang Môn
  • Giang Môna city of China
Cite this entry
APA

Jiangmen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jiangmen

MLA

“Jiangmen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jiangmen. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Jiangmen,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jiangmen.

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