Kiangsu

English

Alternative forms
  • Kiang-su, Kiang Su

Etymology

From the Postal Map romanization of Chinese 江蘇 (Jiāngsū)

Proper noun

Kiangsu

  1. (obsolete or historical) Alternative form of Jiangsu: the province of China northeast of the Yangtze Delta.
    • December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 168:
      Seven million people were homeless in North Kiangsu, and in Kirk Mosley's early days the Tsingkiangpu Hospital undertook relief work planned by Woods and equipped by Bell with a hired steam launch.

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