Meanings
- obsoleteSynonym of Jinan: A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Shandong, in eastern China.
She was persuaded to spend Christmas with his family at Tsinanfu — as a surprise for Hos’s homecoming.
2009, Judith March Davis, Pagoda Dreamer, Langdon Street Press, →ISBN, page 211 more example
We were to travel second class from Shanghai to Tsinanfu, a distance of about 700 miles, so Brother Keihn suggested we had better enter our compartment early in order to secure our seats, inasmuch as it was a night train, and usually densely crowded.
1915, Hiram F. Reynolds, World-Wide Missions, Kansas City, Missouri: Publishing House of the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, page 67Synonyms: Jinan
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Jinan: A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Shandong, in eastern China.
Origin
From Chinese 濟南府 (Jǐnánfǔ).
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