Meanings
- alternativeobsoleteAlternative form of Jinhua.
His lieutenant was a former member of Tseng Kuo-fan's Hunan army, who resigned after the Taiping Rebellion and settled in Kinhwa.
1971, Mary Backus Rankin, Early Chinese Revolutionaries Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911, Harvard University Press, page 1302 more examples
No doubt Monsignor is hoping to be able to return soon to his beloved Chinese people in Kinhwa, who miss him more than ever during these sad days in Chekiang Province.
1943 February, “Monsignor Fraser Safe”, in China, volume XXIV, number 2, page 3South of Ningpo are Kinhwa and Lishui - the latter known at first as Chuchow, which was field headquarters for Scarboro mission bands.
1982 May, Grant Maxwell, “Getting on the Map”, in Assignment in Chekiang: 71 Canadians in China, 1902-1954, Scarborough, Ontario: Scarboro Foreign Mission Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22
Origin
- Mandarin金華 /金华
- EnglishKinhwa
From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 金華 /金华 (Jīnhuá, literally “golden flourishing”), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].
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Kinhwa. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kinhwa
“Kinhwa.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kinhwa. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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