Kinhwa
English edit
Etymology edit
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/.
Proper noun edit
Kinhwa
- (obsolete) Alternative form of Jinhua
- 1971, Mary Backus Rankin, Early Chinese Revolutionaries Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911[2], 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.
Further reading edit
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kinhwa or Chin-hua”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 950, column 3