Jiaxing

See also: jiāxíng

English

Alternative forms

• Kiahing, Kia-hing (dated)
• Kashing (Postal Romanization)
• Chia-hsing (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 嘉興／嘉兴 (Jiāxīng).

Proper noun

Jiaxing

1. A prefecture-level city in Zhejiang, China.
   • 2020 October 16, Huizhong Wu, “China rapidly expands use of experimental COVID-19 vaccines”, in AP News‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 October 2020‎^[2]:

     The city of Jiaxing, south of Shanghai, is offering a vaccine under development by Sinovac, it said in an announcement Thursday.

Translations

prefecture-level city in China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嘉興／嘉兴 (zh) (Jiāxīng)

• Hungarian: Csiahszing (hu)
• Manchu: ᡤᡳᠶᠠ
  ᡥᡳᠩ (giya hing)
• Vietnamese: Gia Hưng

Further reading

• Jiaxing, Kashing, Chia-hsing, Kiahing, Kia-hing at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiaxing”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 2

Anagrams

• Jiangxi