Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Jingmen.
A bomb was also dropped on April 27 on hospital property at Kingmen, Hupeh, belonging to the Covenant Missionary Society.
1939, Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1939, Volume IV, The Far East, United States Department of State1 more example
The trees did not occur in groves; however, he discovered a concentration around Kingmen (Jingmen), four or five days’ walk northeast of Ichang. After negotiating at length, he paid one hundred dollars in advance to a merchant who promised to collect several thousand pounds of ripe pears and to bring them to Kingmen in September.
1984, Isabel Shipley Cunningham, “Terra Sancta”, in Frank N. Meyer Plant Hunter in Asia, Ames: Iowa State University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 223
Origin
- Mandarin荊門 /荆門
- EnglishKingmen
From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 荊門 /荆門 (Jīngmén), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].
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