Kienow
English
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Mandarin 建甌/建瓯 (Jiàn'ōu).
Proper noun
editKienow
- Dated form of Jian'ou.
- 1969, Robert Payne, Chiang Kai-shek[2], New York: Weybright and Talley, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:
- At Kienow, a town in Fukien, he had seen a boy less than ten years old smoking in the street. Incensed by the child's depravity, he had summoned the boy's parents and upbraided them for permitting such behavior. The dressing-down apparently had some effect, for there was a conspicuous decline in cigarette smoking by children in Kienow thereafter.
Etymology 2
editProper noun
editKienow
- A surname.