Kinhwa
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English
Etymology
From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 金華 / 金华 (Jīnhuá, literally “golden flourishing”), from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/.[1]
Proper noun
Kinhwa
- (obsolete) Alternative form of Jinhua
- 1943 February, “Monsignor Fraser Safe”, in China, volume XXIV, number 2, page 3:
- No doubt Monsignor is hoping to be able to return soon to his beloved Chinese people in Kinhwa, who miss him more than ever during these sad days in Chekiang Province.
- 1971, Mary Backus Rankin, Early Chinese Revolutionaries Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911, Harvard University Press, page 130:
- His lieutenant was a former member of Tseng Kuo-fan's Hunan army, who resigned after the Taiping Rebellion and settled in Kinhwa.
- 1982, Grant Maxwell, Assignment in Chekiang, Thorn Press Limited, page 22:
- South of Ningpo are Kinhwa and Lishui - the latter known at first as Chuchow, which was field headquarters for Scarboro mission bands.
References
Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kinhwa or Chin-hua”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 950, column 3