Jianning
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Mandarin 建寧/建宁 (Jiànníng).
Proper noun
editJianning
- A county of Sanming, Fujian, China.
- A former prefecture of Fujian, China; modern Jian'ou.
- 2009, Eugenio Menegon, Ancestors, Virgins, & Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 75:
- The baojuan mentions Zhenghe 政和 county in Jianning prefecture as one of the first places to which the group spread in Fujian; see Baojuan chuji 1994, 358 (Sanzu xingjiao yinyou baojuan 三祖行腳因由寶卷, 33b).
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editFurther reading
edit- Jianning, Kienning at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jianning”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[1], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 1