Jingshan

See also: Jǐngshān and Jīng Shān

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 京山 (Jīngshān).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒɪŋˈʃæn/

Proper noun

Jingshan

  1. A county of Jingmen, Hubei, China.
    • [1971, “Historical Relic Unearthed During the Cultural Revolution”, in Eastern Horizon, volume X, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26, column 2:
      A group of bronzes of the late Western Chou were uncovered in Chingshan County, Hupeh Province, and 25 pieces of stone ching (musical chimes) with a painted design of the State of Chu were found in Chiangling County of the same province.]
    • [1979 May, Frank Leeming, “Progress Towards Triple-Cropping in China”, in Asian Survey, volume XIX, number 5, University of California Press, page 464:
      Given intercropping, says a writer on Chingshan county in Hupei, the natural combined growing season of more than 500 days for a rapeseed-rice-cotton sequence can be compressed into the year.]
    • 2007 July 16, “China warns of more flood misery”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 22 September 2023:
      Local farmer Yang Shizhi displays her dead chickens, which were killed by floods, at Jingshan county in central China's Hubei province July 14, 2007.

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