Ji'nan
See also: jiñan, jínàn, jìnán, Jinan, Jin'an, Jǐnán, and Jìnán
English
Proper noun
Ji'nan
- Misspelling of Jinan.
- 1982, Mackerras, Colin, Modern China: A Chronology from 1842 to the present, San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman and Company, →ISBN, LCCN 81-19458, OCLC 925305947, OL 4273180M, page 320:
- 7. The Japanese in Ji'nan[sic – meaning Jinan] put forward five demands on China, including that all Chinese troops should withdraw to a limit of twenty li from Ji'nan[sic – meaning Jinan] and from either side of the Ji'nan[sic – meaning Jinan]-Qingdao railway; they demand a reply within twelve hours.
- 1998, Walder, Andrew G., “Zouping in Perspective”, in Andrew G. Walder, editor, Zouping in Transition: The Process of Reform in Rural North China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 97-44907, OCLC 37864397, OL 7693801M, page 3:
- The northernmost of two roads around the Baiyun Mountains from the provincial capital, Ji'nan[sic – meaning Jinan] fifty miles to the west), to the thriving eighteenth- and nineteenth-century market town and silk-weaving center of Zhoucun and continuing on to Yantai on the Bohai Gulf, passed directly through Zouping town.
- 2001, Mungello, D. E., “The Trials and Endeavors of Father Antonio”, in The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, LCCN 00-065323, OCLC 872254040, OL 7924231M, pages 9-10:
- Schall explained to him that it was impossible to go to Korea at that time because of hostilities between Koreans and the Manchus. Instead, he proposed that Caballero go to Ji'nan[sic – meaning Jinan], the capital of Shandong province (see maps 1 and 2), where there lived a small number of Christians who had recently been abandoned by the departure of a Jesuit priest.
- 2021 August 31, Fan, Anqi, “HK legal sector returns to rationality with election of pro-establishment Law Society president”, in Global Times, archived from the original on August 31, 2021:
- Chan has served as a lawyer for 24 years. Since 2018, he has served as vice president of the Law Society. He is a member of the Ji'nan[sic – meaning Jinan] People's Political Consultative Conference in East China's Shandong Province, and a member of the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong.
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Usage notes
The misspelling Ji'nan attempts to make clear that 濟南／济南 (Jǐnán) is made up of the two Mandarin syllables ji and nan instead of jin and an. However, in theory, this clarification is not needed because the syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)) should only be added before a non-initial syllable beginning with a, o, or e. Hence, Jinan could only ever refer to a word made up of ji and nan since a word made up of jin and an would be spelled as Jin'an (cf. Jin'an). In practice, syllable-dividing marks are often added or omitted at will.
Further reading
- “Ji'nan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.