Jingshan

See also: Jǐngshān and Jīng Shān

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Alternative forms

• Kingshan
• Ching-shan (Wade–Giles)

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.

Translations

county in Hubei, China

Chinese: Mandarin: 京山 (zh) (Jīngshān)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jingshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1450, column 3