Sungkiang

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  1. 1
    Dated form of Songjiang: a district and former county of Shanghai, China. alt-of, dated

    "Chang-hai, a town of China, in the province of Kiang-nan. In this town, and the villages dependent on it, are more than 200,000 weavers of cotton cloth. It is 18 miles SE of Song-kiang."

  2. 2
    Dated form of Songjiang: a former province of China. alt-of, dated

    "Governor Feng Chang-yung, of Sungkiang Province, in which Harbin is located, gave me harsh details of his fighting days."

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any of various minor rivers in chinasongsongsong river

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"Chang-hai, a town of China, in the province of Kiang-nan. In this town, and the villages dependent on it, are more than 200,000 weavers of cotton cloth. It is 18 miles SE of Song-kiang."

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 松江 (Sōngjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

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