Jianning

Jian·ning
J8I1A1N1N1I1N1G2

proper noun

A county of Sanming, Fujian, China.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Kienning

  1. A county of Sanming, Fujian, China.

    The lotus—Azolla—fish farming system (Fig. 2.3) started in 1986 in Yeping village, Jianning county in Fujian, China.

    1994, Arsenia G. Cagauan, Roger S.V. Pullin, “Azolla in Aquaculture: Past, Present and Future”, in James F. Muir, Ronald J. Roberts, editors, Recent Advances in Aquaculture, volume V, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 121
  2. A former prefecture of Fujian, China; modern Jian'ou.

    The baojuan mentions Zhenghe 政和 county in Jianning prefecture as one of the first places to which the group spread in Fujian; see Baojuan chuji 1994, 358 (Sanzu xingjiao yinyou baojuan 三祖行腳因由寶卷, 33b).

    2009, Eugenio Menegon, Ancestors, Virgins, & Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 75

Origin

  1. Mandarin建寧 /建宁
  2. EnglishJianning

Borrowed from Mandarin 建寧 /建宁 (Jiànníng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 建寧 /建宁, 建寧 /建宁
  • 建寧 /建宁 (gin³ ning⁴)county
  • 建寧 /建宁 (gin³ ning⁴)prefecture
Chinese Mandarin 建寧 /建宁, 建寧 /建宁
  • 建寧 /建宁 (Jiànníng)county
  • 建寧 /建宁 (Jiànníng)prefecture
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