Kienow
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Mandarin 建甌/建瓯 (Jiàn'ōu).
Proper noun
Kienow
- Dated form of Jian'ou.
- 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 157:
- Fukien’s mineral resources are largely unexploited. Coal is found near Shaowu, Kienow and Lungyen.
- 1969, Robert Payne, Chiang Kai-shek, New York: Weybright and Talley, LCCN 68-17754, OCLC 473854919, page 162:
- At Kienow, a town in Fukien, he had seen a boy less than ten years old smoking in the street. Incensed by the child's depravity, he had summoned the boy's parents and upbraided them for permitting such behavior. The dressing-down apparently had some effect, for there was a conspicuous decline in cigarette smoking by children in Kienow thereafter.
- 2008, Keith D. Dickson, World War II Almanac (Almanacs of American Wars), volume 1, →ISBN, LCCN 2007011207, OCLC 778250622, page 520:
- In China, Fourteenth Air Force P-40s and P-51 Mustangs attack road and rail traffic. Six Japanese bombers damage the airfield at Kienow.
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Proper noun
Kienow
- A surname.