Kienyang
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Mandarin 建陽／建阳 (Jiànyáng).
Proper noun
[edit]Kienyang
- 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
[edit]Borrowed from Mandarin 簡陽／简阳 (Jiǎnyáng).
Proper noun
[edit]Kienyang