Jingdezhen
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 景德鎮 / 景德镇 (Jǐngdézhèn).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Jingdezhen
- A prefecture-level city of Jiangxi, China, known for porcelain.
- 2017 January 31, Edward Wong, “Ancient Porcelain Arts Thrive Again in a Chinese River Town”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 February 2017, Asia Pacific:
- Now that tradition is being revived at the roots. Young people are moving to study in Jingdezhen, a river town in the southern Chinese province of Jiangxi.
Translations
prefecture-level city
References
Further reading
- Jingdezhen, Ching-te-chen, Chingtechen at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Fowliang or Fou-liang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 634, column 1: “Was called Kingtehchen (or Ching-te-chen) until 1931, ”
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jingdezhen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1450, column 2