Jingshan

Jing·shan
J8I1N1G2S1H4A1N1
/d͡ʒɪŋˈʃæn/

proper noun

A county of Jingmen, Hubei, China.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Kingshan · alternative Ching-shan

  1. A county of Jingmen, Hubei, China.

    Local farmer Yang Shizhi displays her dead chickens, which were killed by floods, at Jingshan county in central China's Hubei province July 14, 2007.

    2007 July 16, “China warns of more flood misery”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2023
    2 more examples

    A group of bronzes of the late Western Chou were uncovered in Chingshan County, Hupeh Province, and 25 pieces of stone ching (musical chimes) with a painted design of the State of Chu were found in Chiangling County of the same province.

    [1971, “Historical Relic Unearthed During the Cultural Revolution”, in Eastern Horizon, volume X, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26, column 2

    Given intercropping, says a writer on Chingshan county in Hupei, the natural combined growing season of more than 500 days for a rapeseed-rice-cotton sequence can be compressed into the year.

    [1979 May, Frank Leeming, “Progress Towards Triple-Cropping in China”, in Asian Survey, volume XIX, number 5, University of California Press, page 464

Origin

  1. Mandarin京山
  2. EnglishJingshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 京山 (Jīngshān).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 京山
  • 京山 (ging¹ saan¹)county in Hubei, China
Chinese Mandarin 京山
  • 京山 (Jīngshān)county in Hubei, China

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