Jiangmen
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See also: Jiāngmén
English
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江門 / 江门 (Jiāngmén, literally “River Gate”), after its location at the mouth of the Xi or West River.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Jiangmen
- A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China.
- 2013 July 18, Charlie Zhu, David Stanway, Grace Li, Lavinia Mo, “Public trust crisis threatens China's nuclear power ambitions”, in David Lague, Alex Richardson, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 01 April 2022, Environment:
- In the Internet age, in which the Chinese public is becoming increasingly vocal about their rights and mobilizing on social networks, popular protests like the demonstrations in the city of Jiangmen against the processing plant suggest a wider backlash against nuclear power. […]
The uranium processing project in Jiangmen, near Hong Kong, was supposed to supply fuel to existing and future power plants in Guangdong, a major Chinese industrial powerhouse and a center of nuclear energy expansion.
Synonyms
Translations
a city of China
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Further reading
- Jiangmen, Chiang-men, Kongmoon, Kong Moon at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiangmen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1446, column 2