Jincheng

See also: jīnchéng, jìnchéng, Jīnchéng, and Jǐnchéng

English

Alternative forms

• Kincheng (Postal Romanization)
• Chincheng, Chin-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)

Pronunciation

• (anglicized) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪnˈt͡ʃɛŋ/, (emulating Chinese) /d͡ʒinˈt͡ʃʌŋ/

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 金城 (Jīnchéng).

Proper noun

Jincheng

1. An urban township, the county seat of Kinmen County, Taiwan.
   • 2007, Phil Macdonald, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan‎^[1], 2nd edition (Travel), National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 200, column 1:

     Kinmen is the main island, and Jincheng is Kinmen’s main town, offering most of the accommodation and other services. Here you'll also find Jyuguanglou, one of a number of monuments, buildings, and museums glorifying and memorializing the feats of Taiwan’s military against mainland China.

   • 2011, Neal Stephenson, Reamde‎^[2] (Fiction), London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 511:

     THE MAN, WHO was calling himself George Chow, took Olivia into Jincheng: a fishing town at the island’s western end.

   • 2016 September 11, Rob Schmitz, “On A Rural Taiwanese Island, Modern China Beckons”, in NPR‎^[3], archived from the original on 11 September 2016, Asia:

     At a bohemian restaurant inside the island's biggest town, Jincheng, ukulele instructor Xu Yi Teng, 26, wants to keep the mainland at more than an arm's length.

   • 2021 December 28, “Orchid Island to catch first sunrise of new year: CWB”, in Taipei Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 December 2014‎^[5]:

     In Kinmen County, the sunset would be visible at 5:29pm at Jiangong Islet (建功嶼) at the mouth of the Wujiang River (浯江溪) in Jincheng Township (金城) and at Cih Lake (慈湖).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jincheng.

Translations

county seat of Kinmen

• Japanese: 金城 (きんじょう, Kinjō)

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 晉城／晋城 (Jìnchéng).

Proper noun

Jincheng

1. A prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China.
   • 2018 November 26, David Stanway, Joseph Campbell, Muyu Xu, Shanghai newsroom, “Smog war casualty: China coal city bears brunt of pollution crackdown”, in Philip McClellan, editor, Reuters‎^[6], archived from the original on 27 November 2018, World News‎^[7]:

     A sprawling, mountainous administrative region in the south of Shanxi province, Jincheng is still dominated by coal. Though many pits have been shut, the craggy landscape bears the scars of decades of excessive mining.

Translations

city in Shanxi

• Japanese: 晋城 (しんじょう, Shinjō)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jincheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1450, column 1