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
- A prefecture-level city of Zhejiang, China.
- [1976, Donald A. Jordan, “The Expedition Moves Eastward: The Kiangsi Campaign”, in The Northern Expedition: China's National Revolution of 1926-1928[1], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 90–91:
- After only a brief skirmish on October 17, at Shanghai’s western suburbs, the Chekiang rebels withdrew back to Chiahsing in Chekiang.]
- 2020 October 16, Huizhong Wu, “China rapidly expands use of experimental COVID-19 vaccines”, in AP News[2], archived from the original on 21 October 2020[3]:
- 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
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[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 2