Kiukiang
English
Etymology
The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 九江 (Jiǔjiāng).
Proper noun
Kiukiang
- Alternative form of Jiujiang
- December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 43:
- The Bells and Taylors went by launch down the canal to Chinkiang and thence by slow, foreign-owned river steamer some 350 miles up the Yangtze to Kiukiang.
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