Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A river (晉水) in Shanxi Province, China, emptying into the Fen River. · A marchland (c. 1046–677 BC) and duchy (677–376 BC) of the Zhou Kingdom around the river. · A Chinese surname. · A titular principality of the Wei Empire (est. AD 264) and other later Chinese states.
The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 晉 /晋 (Jìn), adopted as the name of a river in Shanxi in antiquity. As a Zhou state, from the renaming of the marchland Tang (唐) by its second marquis Ji Xie when he relocated to the Jin River c. 1000 BC. As a surname, principally from the Zhou state and its region in China. As an empire and dynastic name, from Sima Yan's status as prince of Jin under the preceding Wei Empire. As a river in Fujian, named for the empire, which settled its banks with colonizers from China's Central Plains. As a dialect, from 晉語／晋语 (Jìnyǔ), from the region of the former Zhou state.
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- Borrowed-form mention晉zh
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