Jian'ou
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See also: Jiàn'ōu
English
Alternative forms
- Chien-ou (Wade–Giles)
- Kienow (Postal Romanization)
- Jianou (also from Hanyu Pinyin)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 建甌／建瓯 (Jiàn'ōu).
Proper noun
Jian'ou
- A county-level city in Nanping, Fujian, China.
- , archived from the original on 27 April 2022:
- Li, from Jianou in Fujian province, was confirmed to have been infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus in March.
"A doctor in her village will carry out medical checks every day and report her condition to us to ensure her complete recovery," said Huang Jian, deputy director of Jianou's Health Bureau.]
- 2013, Li Han, “Late Stage”, in Josh Stenberg, transl., Irina's Hat: New Short Stories from China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 155:
- Every now and then, Wan Zijing likes to bring up something that happened many years ago when we had both participated in the Provincial Young Writers’ Association conference in the historical city of Jian’ou.
Translations
county-level city in Fujian
Further reading
- Jian'ou, Chien-ou, Kienow, Jianou at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jian’ou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 1