Jiaxing

See also: jiāxíng

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Etymology

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

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Jiaxing

  1. 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.

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