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Jincheng
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jīnchéng jìnchéng Jīnchéng Jǐnchéng
English
Alternative forms
en Kincheng Postal
en Chincheng Chin-ch'eng Wade-Giles
Pronunciation
anglicized en /d͡ʒɪnˈt͡ʃɛŋ/, emulating Chinese /d͡ʒinˈt͡ʃʌŋ/
jĭn′chŭng′Tsincheng or Chin-ch’eng 1953 1
en Jin cheng
Etymology 1
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for ^金城.
Proper noun
en urban township/county seat county/Kinmen c/Taiwan.
en 2007 Phil Macdonald Strait Islands Taiwan https://archive.org/details/taiwan0000macd/ Travel 2nd w:National Geographic Society 978-1-4262-0145-5 938505593 200 https://archive.org/details/taiwan0000macd/page/200/ 1 Kinmen is the main island, and Jincheng is Kinmen’s main town, offering most of the accommodation and other services. Here you'll also find Jyuguanglou, one of a number of monuments, buildings, and museums glorifying and memorializing the feats of Taiwan’s military against mainland China.
en 2011 w:Neal Stephenson w:Reamde https://archive.org/details/reamde0000step_c0u2/ Fiction London w:Atlantic Books 9781848874510 824175727 32615756M 511 https://archive.org/details/reamde0000step_c0u2/page/511/ THE MAN, WHO was calling himself George Chow, took Olivia into Jincheng: a fishing town at the island’s western end.
en 11 September 2016 Rob Schmitz On A Rural Taiwanese Island, Modern China Beckons https://web.archive.org/web/20160911172015/https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/09/11/493255462/on-a-rural-taiwanese-island-modern-china-beckons 11 September 2016 w:NPR Asia At a bohemian restaurant inside the island's biggest town, Jincheng, ukulele instructor Xu Yi Teng, 26, wants to keep the mainland at more than an arm's length.
en December 28, 2021 Orchid Island to catch first sunrise of new year: CWB https://web.archive.org/web/20211227170459/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2021/12/28/2003770321 27 December 2014 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 In Kinmen County, the sunset would be visible at 5:29pm at Jiangong Islet (zh 建功嶼) at the mouth of the Wujiang River (zh 浯江溪) in Jincheng Township (zh 金城) and at Cih Lake (zh 慈湖).
en
Translations
county seat of Kinmen
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 金城
Mandarin: cmn 金城
Japanese: ja 金城 きんじょう, Kinjō
Etymology 2
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 晉城.
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Shanxi c/China.
en NOVEMBER 26, 2018 David Stanway; Joseph Campbell; Muyu Xu; Shanghai newsroom Smog war casualty: China coal city bears brunt of pollution crackdown Philip McClellan https://web.archive.org/web/20181127034228/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pollution-economy-insight-idUSKCN1NV2RB 27 November 2018 w:Reuters World News A sprawling, mountainous administrative region in the south of Shanxi province, Jincheng is still dominated by coal. Though many pits have been shut, the craggy landscape bears the scars of decades of excessive mining.
en 31 October 2022 Liya Su Heartwarming tales of man’s best friend: dog finds way home after 6 years, canine’s face scanned to open gate, puppy wrapped in plastic bag rescued w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20221031012636/https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3197522/heartwarming-tales-mans-best-friend-dog-finds-way-home-after-6-years-canines-face-scanned-open-gate https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3197522/heartwarming-tales-mans-best-friend-dog-finds-way-home-after-6-years-canines-face-scanned-open-gate 1563-9371 648902513 People & Culture https://archive.ph/A5WlK The man, surnamed Chai, from Jincheng city in Shanxi province, was outraged after he discovered the abandoned little puppy, according to Toutiao News.
Translations
city in Shanxi
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 晋城
Mandarin: cmn 晋城
Japanese: ja 晋城 しんじょう, Shinjō
References
Further reading
en 1998 Jincheng 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 1450 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1450/ 1