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Jian'ou
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Jiàn'ōu
English
Alternative forms
en Chien-ou Wade-Giles
en Kienow Postal
en Jianou also from _ Pinyin
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 建甌.
Pronunciation
jyĕn′ō′Kienow or Chien-ou 943 3 Until 1913 called Kienning.
en Jian ou
Proper noun
en county-level city prefecture-level city/Nanping p/Fujian c/China.
en 1964 Carroll V. Glines The Preparation Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders https://archive.org/details/doolittlestokyor0000carr_d9l7/ w:D. Van Nostrand Company 300009380 38 https://archive.org/details/doolittlestokyor0000carr_d9l7/page/38/ After clearing the Japanese outside coastline a sufficient distance, a general westerly course will be set for one or more of the following airports in China: Chuchow, Chuchow (Lishui), Yushan and/or Chienou. Chuchow is about seventy miles inland and two hundred miles to the south southwest of Shanghai. on
en MAY 29, 2007 China says bird flu patient recovers, goes home https://web.archive.org/web/20220427222904/https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSP223439 27 April 2022 w:Reuters Li, from Jianou in Fujian province, was confirmed to have been infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus in March."A doctor in her village will carry out medical checks every day and report her condition to us to ensure her complete recovery," said Huang Jian, deputy director of Jianou's Health Bureau. on
en 2013 Li Han Josh Stenberg Late Stage Irina's Hat: New Short Stories from China https://archive.org/details/irinashatnewshor0000unse/ 978-1-937385-22-4 862799113 27146583M 155 https://archive.org/details/irinashatnewshor0000unse/page/155/ Every now and then, Wan Zijing likes to bring up something that happened many years ago when we had both participated in the Provincial Young Writers’ Association conference in the historical city of Jian’ou.
Translations
county-level city in Fujian
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 建甌 gin3 au1
Mandarin: cmn 建甌 Jiàn'ōu
Northern Min: mnp 建甌 Gṳ̿ing-é
References
Further reading
Jian'ou, Chien-ou, Kienow, Jianou
en 1998 Jian’ou Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1447 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1447/ 1
en 2-syllable words