Kienow

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English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mandarin 建甌／建瓯 (Jiàn'ōu).

Proper noun

Kienow

  1. Dated form of Jian'ou.
    • 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 157:
      Fukien’s mineral resources are largely unexploited. Coal is found near Shaowu, Kienow and Lungyen.
    • 1969, Robert Payne, Chiang Kai-shek‎, New York: Weybright and Talley, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:
      At Kienow, a town in Fukien, he had seen a boy less than ten years old smoking in the street. Incensed by the child's depravity, he had summoned the boy's parents and upbraided them for permitting such behavior. The dressing-down apparently had some effect, for there was a conspicuous decline in cigarette smoking by children in Kienow thereafter.
    • 2008, Keith D. Dickson, World War II Almanac (Almanacs of American Wars)‎, volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 520:
      In China, Fourteenth Air Force P-40s and P-51 Mustangs attack road and rail traffic. Six Japanese bombers damage the airfield at Kienow.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Kienow

  1. A surname.
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