/kiˈɑŋ/, /kiˈæŋ/
OriginFrom Tibetan རྐྱང (rkyang, “wild ass”).
- A large wild ass, Equus kiang, native to the Tibetan Plateau.
- obsoleteSynonym of Yangtze, the chief river of central China.
“All China was formerly divided by the Chineſe Emperour Xunus into 12 Provinces; afterwards the Emperour Yua, who took upon him the Government after the death of Xunus, about 260 years before the Incar”
“The series of these great events began in the year 1333, fifteen years before the plague broke out in Europe: they first appeared in China. Here a parching drought, accompanied by famine, commenced in”
“The cult center of this vast playground for water spirits and connoisseurs of water was on the mainland in a region on the east shore of the lake that came to be known as Pa-ling. Its official name in”
- A surname from Chinese.
Formskiangs(plural) · kiyang(alternative) · kyang(alternative) · Kiangs(plural)
Source: Wiktionary