Keen-chang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Jianchang (Xichang) alt-of, alternative, historical, obsolete

    "IN the Keen-chang district of the province of Szechuen there grows in abundance the ligustrum lucidum, an evergreen tree with pointed leaves, on the twigs of which myriads of insects spread themselves, like a brownish film, in the Spring of each year."

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xichang

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"IN the Keen-chang district of the province of Szechuen there grows in abundance the ligustrum lucidum, an evergreen tree with pointed leaves, on the twigs of which myriads of insects spread themselves, like a brownish film, in the Spring of each year."

Etymology

From Chinese 建昌 (Jiànchāng, literally “Establishing Prosperity”).

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