jinan
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 5
/ˈd͡ʒiːˌnɑːn/
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/ˈd͡ʒiːˌnɑːn/ · /ˈd͡ʒɪ-/ · /-ˌnæn/
Definition of jinan
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
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A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Shandong, in eastern China.
“On the outskirts of Jinan, capital of eastern Shandong province, a billion cockroaches are being fed with 50 tonnes of kitchen waste a day - the equivalent in weight to seven adult elephants.”
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A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Shandong, in eastern China.
“On the outskirts of Jinan, capital of eastern Shandong province, a billion cockroaches are being fed with 50 tonnes of kitchen waste a day - the equivalent in weight to seven adult elephants.”
- A town in Jingzhou district, Jingzhou, Hubei, in central China.
- The ancient capital of the former State of Chu in modern Hubei, China.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 濟南 /济南 (Jǐnán).
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