Kinhwa

English

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 金華／金华 (Jīnhuá, literally “golden flourishing”), from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/.

Proper noun

Kinhwa

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of Jinhua
   • 1943 February, “Monsignor Fraser Safe”, in China‎^[2], volume XXIV, number 2, page 3:

     No doubt Monsignor is hoping to be able to return soon to his beloved Chinese people in Kinhwa, who miss him more than ever during these sad days in Chekiang Province.

   • 1971, Mary Backus Rankin, Early Chinese Revolutionaries Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911‎^[3], Harvard University Press, page 130:

     His lieutenant was a former member of Tseng Kuo-fan's Hunan army, who resigned after the Taiping Rebellion and settled in Kinhwa.

   • 1982, Grant Maxwell, Assignment in Chekiang‎^[4], Thorn Press Limited, page 22:

     South of Ningpo are Kinhwa and Lishui - the latter known at first as Chuchow, which was field headquarters for Scarboro mission bands.

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kinhwa or Chin-hua”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 950, column 3

Anagrams

• Hawkin, Ikhwan