Jianyang

• (dated) Kienyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 建陽 / 建阳 (Jiànyáng).

Jianyang

1. A district and former county of Nanping, Fujian, China.
   • 1983 April 14, “AROUND THE WORLD; Tornado Kills 54 In South China”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 September 2023, Around the World, page 11‎^[2]:

     It said 90 buildings collapsed in the storm that hit Jianyang county of Fujian Province. The agency quoted county authorities as saying the casualties included students and teachers in local schools.

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 簡陽 / 简阳 (Jiǎnyáng).

Jianyang

1. A county-level city of Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
   • 2018 September 25, Elsie Chen, Sui-Lee Wee [黃瑞黎], “Offering Manicures With Your Hot Pot, China’s Haidilao Plans a Global Push [海底撈赴港上市，它能征服海外食客嗎？]”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 June 2019, page B1‎^[4]:

     Zhang Yong, a former tractor-factory worker, founded Haidilao originally with just four tables in his hometown, Jianyang, a city in Sichuan Province in China’s southwest.

     張勇曾經是一個拖拉機廠工人，他在自己的家鄉中國西南省份四川的簡陽創立了海底撈，店裡最初只有四張桌子。

• Jianyang, Kienyang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jianyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 1