Kienyang

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mandarin 建陽／建阳 (Jiànyáng).

Proper noun

Kienyang

1. 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

Borrowed from Mandarin 簡陽／简阳 (Jiǎnyáng).

Proper noun

Kienyang

1. Dated form of Jianyang (a county-level city in Chengdu, Sichuan, China).