Kongmoon

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A form of Jiangmen — A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

proper noun
  1. datedDated form of Jiangmen.

    Tang Pun-yan (the pro-Chan general now holding the southern peninsula of Kwangtung) is advancing by two routes to attack Kongmoon. Fighting has broken out at Yanping (in the Sze Yap districts).

    1925 October 28, “Chan's Allies”, in China Mail, number 19,635, →OCLC, page 1, column 3
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    Reaching Samshui the stream bifurcates, one branch moving northward past Fatshan and Canton, thence being known as the Chu Kiang or Pearl River, and the other still retaining the name of West River and sweeping past Kongmoon to the sea.

    1910, The Provinces of China, Together with a History of the First Year of H.I.M. Hsuan Tung, and an Account of the Government of China, Shanghai: "The National Review" Office, →OCLC, →OL, page 111

    The Japanese Army had taken Kongmoon, South China, in 1939, but the American priests there went on with their mission tasks and in addition dispensed rice and wheat daily to the thousands of starving refugees.

    1945, Mark Tennien, Chungking Listening Post, New York: Creative Age Press, Inc., →OCLC, page 37

    With the exception of Shiukwan on the Canton-Hankow railroad, Kwangtung’s regional centers are situated along the coast, notably in the Canton delta. There, in addition to Canton, are the cities of Fatshan, Kongmoon and Shekki.

    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, page 166

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Origin

  1. Cantonese江門 /江门
  2. EnglishKongmoon

From the Postal Romanization of Cantonese 江門 /江门 (gong¹ mun⁴).

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