Jianning

See also: jiānnìng and Jiànníng

English

Alternative forms

• Kienning

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 建寧／建宁 (Jiànníng).

Proper noun

Jianning

1. A county of Sanming, Fujian, China.
2. 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).

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 建寧／建宁 (zh) (Jiànníng)

prefecture

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 建寧／建宁 (zh) (Jiànníng)

  Northern Min: 建寧／建宁 (Gṳ̿ing-nǎing)

Further reading

• Jianning, Kienning at Google 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