Etymograph

English

Jiaxing

Jiaxing comes from Mandarin 嘉興/嘉兴.

  1. Mandarinmodern嘉興/嘉兴Jiāxīng
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2020Jiaxing

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Mandarinmodern嘉興/嘉兴Jiāxīng
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2020Jiaxing

Earliest quotation: 2020, Huizhong Wu, China rapidly expands use of experimental COVID-19 vaccines: “The city of Jiaxing, south of Shanghai, is offering…”

Today it means

name A prefecture-level city of Zhejiang, China.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Mandarin 嘉興/嘉兴 / Jiaxing