Jiangxi

See also: jiǎngxí and Jiāngxī

English

Alternative forms

• Jiang Xi (also from Hanyu Pinyin)
• Kiangsi (dated)
• Chiang-hsi (Wade–Giles)
• Kyang-si (obsolete)
• Jianxi (misspelling)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江西 (Jiāngxī).

Proper noun

Jiangxi

1. A province in southern China. Capital: Nanchang.
   • 2001, “People with Cancer”, in Falun Gong Stories: A Journey to Ultimate Health‎^[2], Golden Lotus Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:

     Qingyun Hu, a former officer of the Peoples Supreme Court of Jiangxi Province in China, was diagnosed as having leukemia in 1997.

   • 2021 November 23, “At least 4 killed in southern China dormitory collapse”, in AP News‎^[3], archived from the original on 23 November 2021‎^[4]:

     At least four people have died in the partial collapse of a workers’ dormitory in the southern Chinese province of Jiangxi, state media report^{[sic – meaning reports]}.

Descendants

• Translingual: Jiangxisaurus

Translations

Chinese province

• Arabic: جْيَانْغْشِي m (jyangšī)
• Armenian: Ցզյանսի (Cʻzyansi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 江西 (gong¹ sai¹)

  Mandarin: 江西 (zh) (Jiāngxī)

• Czech: Ťiang-si
• Georgian: ძიანსი (ʒiansi)
• Greek: Τσιανγκσί (Tsiangksí)
• Hungarian: Csianghszi (hu)
• Japanese: 江西 (こうせい, Kōsei, Chianshī)
• Korean: 장시 (Jangsi), 강서 (gangseo)
• Latvian: Dzjansji
• Lithuanian: Dziangsi
• Lü: ᦶᦋᧂᧈᦌᦲᧈ (tsaeng¹sii¹)
• Macedonian: Џја́нгшји (Džjángšji)
• Manchu: ᡤᡳᠶᠠᠩᠰᡳ (giyangsi), ᡤᡳᠶᠠᠩ
  ᠰᡳ (giyang si)
• Mongolian: Жянши (Žjanši)
• Russian: Цзянси́ (ru) f (Czjansí)
• Tibetan: ཅང་ཤིའི་ཞིང་ཆེན (cang shi'i zhing chen)
• Vietnamese: Giang Tây (vi)
• Zhuang: Gyanghsih

Further reading

• “Jiangxi”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Jiangxi, Jiang Xi, Kiangsi, Chiang-hsi, Kyang-si at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Jiangxi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Jiangxi”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Jiangxi” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiangxi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1446, column 3: “The name sometimes appears as Chiang-hsi, or Kiangsi.”

Anagrams

• Jiaxing