Jinzhai

Jin·zhai
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/d͡ʒɪnˈd͡ʒaɪ//d͡ʒin-//-t͡ʃaɪ/

proper noun

A county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.

Scrabble 26

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Chinchai · alternative Chin-chai

  1. A county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.

    He was born in 1913 in Jinzhai county, Anhui province and joined the communist party in 1929 at the age of only 16.

    1989, “Hong Xuezhi”, in China in Crisis: The Role of the Military, Jane's Information Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 73
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    “We’ve had so many years of development since liberation, but the ordinary people in this old revolutionary area still don’t have enough clothes to wear or food to fill their stomachs,” he said, according to an account of his visit to Jinzhai County in Anhui. “How can we show our faces to these simple country folk? This is shameful.”

    2015 July 16, Chris Buckley, “Wan Li, Who Helped China’s Farmers Emerge From Mao Era, Dies at 98”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 May 2023, Asia Pacific

Origin

  1. Mandarin金寨
  2. EnglishJinzhai

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 金寨 (Jīnzhài).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 金寨
  • 金寨 (Jīnzhài)county
Japanese 金寨
  • 金寨 (Kinsai)county

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