Jiangmen

See also: Jiāngmén

English

Alternative forms

• Chiang-men (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江門／江门 (Jiāngmén, literally “River Gate”), after its location at the mouth of the Xi or West River.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑŋ.mɛn/

Proper noun

Jiangmen

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China.
   • 2013 July 18, Charlie Zhu, David Stanway, Grace Li, Lavinia Mo, “Public trust crisis threatens China's nuclear power ambitions”, in David Lague, Alex Richardson, editors, Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 01 April 2022, Environment‎^[2]:

     In the Internet age, in which the Chinese public is becoming increasingly vocal about their rights and mobilizing on social networks, popular protests like the demonstrations in the city of Jiangmen against the processing plant suggest a wider backlash against nuclear power. […]
     The uranium processing project in Jiangmen, near Hong Kong, was supposed to supply fuel to existing and future power plants in Guangdong, a major Chinese industrial powerhouse and a center of nuclear energy expansion.

Synonyms

• (from Cantonese) Kongmoon, Kong Moon, Kiangmoon

Translations

a city of China

• Arabic: جْيَانْغْمِن m (jyanḡmen), جْيَانْغْمِين m (jyanḡmīn)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 江門／江门 (gong¹ mun⁴)

  Mandarin: 江門／江门 (zh) (Jiāngmén)

• Hungarian: Csiangmen (hu)
• Japanese: 江門 (こうもん, Kōmon)
• Korean: 강문 (Gangmun)
• Macedonian: Џиа́нгмен m (Džiángmen)
• Russian: Цзянмэ́нь m (Czjanmɛ́nʹ)
• Vietnamese: Giang Môn

Further reading

• Jiangmen, Chiang-men, Kongmoon, Kong Moon at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiangmen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1446, column 2