Meanings
- alternativeobsoleteAlternative form of Jiangxi.
Fo-kyen is bounded by Che-kyang on the North, Kyang-ſi on the Weſt, Quang-tong on the South, and on the Eaſt by the Sea of China.
1738, J. B. Du Halde, “PROVINCE IV. FO-KYEN.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet, volume I, London, →OCLC, page 842 more examples
VIII. Kyang-si, which lies between Che-kyang and Kwang-tong, and is itself separated from the sea by those Provinces and Fǒ-kyen, has thirteen Cantons and seventy-eight Districts and Townships.
1845, “China”, in Encyclopædia Metropolitana : or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, volume XVI, London, →OCLC, page 552, column 2We have now left the province of Ngan-wei altogether, which does not extend further up than the Poyang lake. Hu-quang then commences, but does not stretch across to the right bank, until you reach about four miles beyond Wu-hiu-tsun, the province of Kyang-si (which had commenced about ten miles above Tsung-liu), extending to that point.
1862 [1860 March 4], G. J. Wolseley, chapter XV, in Narrative of the War with China in 1860, London: Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, →OCLC, pages 378–379
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