Ching-ming Festival

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Archived revision by WingerBot (talk | contribs) as of 13:56, 10 October 2019.
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: Ching Ming Festival and Chingming Festival

English

Etymology

From the Wade-Giles romanization of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin Chinese 清明 (Qīngmíng, "pure brightness") and the English translation of 節 (jié, "festival")

Proper noun

Ching-ming Festival

  1. Alternative form of Qingming Festival

Usage notes

Properly "Ch‘ing-ming Festival", with the apostrophe noting a distinct sound, but in practice it is usually omitted.

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Ching-ming_Festival&oldid=54981395"