Jian'ou

See also: Jiàn'ōu

English

Alternative forms

• Chien-ou (Wade–Giles)
• Kienow (Postal Romanization)
• Jianou (also from Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 建甌／建瓯 (Jiàn'ōu).

Proper noun

Jian'ou

1. A county-level city in Nanping, Fujian, China.
   • [2007 May 29, “China says bird flu patient recovers, goes home”, in Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 April 2022‎^[2]:

     Li, from Jianou in Fujian province, was confirmed to have been infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus in March.
     "A doctor in her village will carry out medical checks every day and report her condition to us to ensure her complete recovery," said Huang Jian, deputy director of Jianou's Health Bureau.]

   • 2013, Li Han, “Late Stage”, in Josh Stenberg, transl., Irina's Hat: New Short Stories from China‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 155:

     Every now and then, Wan Zijing likes to bring up something that happened many years ago when we had both participated in the Provincial Young Writers’ Association conference in the historical city of Jian’ou.

Translations

county-level city in Fujian

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 建甌／建瓯 (gin³ au¹)

  Mandarin: 建甌／建瓯 (zh) (Jiàn'ōu)

  Northern Min: 建甌／建瓯 (Gṳ̿ing-é)

Further reading

• Jian'ou, Chien-ou, Kienow, Jianou at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jian’ou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 1