Jinshi

jinshi English Jinshi City Alternative forms en Chin-shih Wade-Giles Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 津市. Pronunciation en /d͡ʒɪnˈʃi/ jĭn′shœ′ en Jin shi Proper noun en county-level city prefecture-level city/Changde p/Hunan c/China. en 17 February 2016 China museum offers reward to decode historic coins w:BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20160319221311/https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-35595138 https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-35595138 March 19, 2016 News from Elsewhere The centuries-old coins were first unearthed on a farm in the southern Hunan province in the 1960s, where they had been kept inside a small glazed pot. They arrived at Jinshi City's museum in the 1980s, and archaeologists have been puzzling over their markings ever since, the Xinhua news agency reports. Now the museum says it'll hand out 10,000 yuan ($1,500; £1,100) to anyone who can help to shed light on the meaning of the coins' etchings. Translations county-level city Chinese: Cantonese: yue 津市 Mandarin: cmn 津市 Jīnshì Japanese: ja Korean: ko Further reading Jinshi in Encyclopædia Britannica en 1998 Jinshi 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 1451 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1451/ 2