Kienyang
English
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Mandarin 建陽/建阳 (Jiànyáng).
Proper noun
editKienyang
- Dated form of Jianyang (a district and former county of Nanping, Fuzhou, China).
- 1931, E. F. E. Wigram, “The Fukien Diocese and Mission”, in Weapons that Win: Being the C. M. S. Story of the Year, 1930-31[1], London: Church Missionary Society, →OCLC, page 106:
- Miss I. B. Ramsay writes from Kienyang that "all the churches in the county have suffered greatly from the depredations of the bandits and Communists. A few Christians have been killed, others carried away captive and held to ransom."
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Mandarin 簡陽/简阳 (Jiǎnyáng).
Proper noun
editKienyang