Kienow

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proper noun

A surname.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

Kienow1

proper noun
  1. datedDated form of Jian'ou.

    Fukien’s mineral resources are largely unexploited. Coal is found near Shaowu, Kienow and Lungyen.

    1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 157
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    At Kienow, a town in Fukien, he had seen a boy less than ten years old smoking in the street. Incensed by the child's depravity, he had summoned the boy's parents and upbraided them for permitting such behavior. The dressing-down apparently had some effect, for there was a conspicuous decline in cigarette smoking by children in Kienow thereafter.

    1969, Robert Payne, Chiang Kai-shek, New York: Weybright and Talley, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162

    According to Rear Adm. Milton E. Miles, the SACO leader for the Americans, Pact Doc Hospital finally reached a capacity of 100 beds, but at the time had nearly 300 patients. The hospital was split into two units in the spring of 1945 because the Japs had overrun part of its lines of communication. Most of the hospital was moved down to Kienow or Chienou, in Fukien Province, to the south, the remainder going to Suian, still in Chekiang Province.

    1989, William Boyd Sinclair, Medics and Nurses (Confusion Beyond Imagination), number 5, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: Joe F. Whitley, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 148

    In China, Fourteenth Air Force P-40s and P-51 Mustangs attack road and rail traffic. Six Japanese bombers damage the airfield at Kienow.

    2008, Keith D. Dickson, World War II Almanac (Almanacs of American Wars), volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 520

Kienow2

proper noun

Origin

Borrowed from Mandarin 建甌/建瓯 (Jiàn'ōu).

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