Jiangmenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Chiang-men (Wade–Giles)

語源

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江門 / 江门 (Jiāngmén, literally “River Gate”), after its location at the mouth of the Xi or West River.

発音

• IPA: /d͡ʒɑŋ.mɛn/
• ハイフネーション: Jiang‧men

固有名詞

Jiangmen

1. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
   • [1979 May 9 [1978 May], “Topography of Kwangtung”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 519, United States Joint Publications Research Service, translation of Kuang-tung Ti-chih. Hong Kong, T'ien-ti Books, Ltd. by Ch'en Cheng-hsiang [7115 2973 4382] [陳正祥] (in Chinese), →OCLC, page 62:

     Recently, the largest high voltage electric power transmission line has been installed from Maoming to Chiangmen. […] It is through this high voltage power line that the Maoming Thermoelectric Power Plant supplies the Pearl River Delta with a continuous flow of strong electric current. At the terminal of the line, Chiangmen City, a 220,000 volt transformer unit has been built to lower the voltage of this strong current for local users.]

   • 2013 July 18, Charlie Zhu, David Stanway, Grace Li, Lavinia Mo, “Public trust crisis threatens China's nuclear power ambitions”, in David Lague, Alex Richardson, editors, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 01 April 2022, Environment‎:

     In the Internet age, in which the Chinese public is becoming increasingly vocal about their rights and mobilizing on social networks, popular protests like the demonstrations in the city of Jiangmen against the processing plant suggest a wider backlash against nuclear power. […]
     The uranium processing project in Jiangmen, near Hong Kong, was supposed to supply fuel to existing and future power plants in Guangdong, a major Chinese industrial powerhouse and a center of nuclear energy expansion.

同意語

• (from Cantonese) Kongmoon, Kong Moon, Kiangmoon

Further reading

• Jiangmen, Chiang-men, Kongmoon, Kong Moon at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiangmen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1446, column 2