"Kin-sha-kiang" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of 金沙江 (Jīnshājiāng).",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
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        {
          "word": "Jinsha Jiang"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1879, Benjamin F. Taylor, chapter IX, in Between the Gates, 6th edition, S. C. Griggs and Company, →OCLC, pages 116–117",
          "text": "He dwells by the Kin-sha-kiang, which is the river of the golden sand, and his wife has the feet of a mouse.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1940 [1938], Michael Prawdin, “A General Onslaught”, in Eden Paul, Cedar Paul, transl., Tschingis-Chan und sein Erbe [Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy], London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, published 1953, →OCLC, page 311",
          "text": "At length he reached the banks of the Kin-sha-kiang, on the borders of what is now Yunnan. Here his advance was resisted by the troops of the kingdom of Nan-Chow, reinforced by various native tribes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1942, Alan Houghton Brodrick, Little China: The Annamese Lands, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 137",
          "text": "If you drive out from K’unming towards the west you skirt the edge of the poplar-fringed lake and its busy inland port. The mountain sea is drained by the Putu-ho, an affluent of the Kin-sha-kiang, or River of Golden Sand, as the Yang-tsé is called in its upper reaches.",
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        "Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang"
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  "word": "Kin-sha-kiang"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of 金沙江 (Jīnshājiāng).",
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  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
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        {
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        {
          "ref": "1879, Benjamin F. Taylor, chapter IX, in Between the Gates, 6th edition, S. C. Griggs and Company, →OCLC, pages 116–117",
          "text": "He dwells by the Kin-sha-kiang, which is the river of the golden sand, and his wife has the feet of a mouse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1940 [1938], Michael Prawdin, “A General Onslaught”, in Eden Paul, Cedar Paul, transl., Tschingis-Chan und sein Erbe [Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy], London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, published 1953, →OCLC, page 311",
          "text": "At length he reached the banks of the Kin-sha-kiang, on the borders of what is now Yunnan. Here his advance was resisted by the troops of the kingdom of Nan-Chow, reinforced by various native tribes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1942, Alan Houghton Brodrick, Little China: The Annamese Lands, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 137",
          "text": "If you drive out from K’unming towards the west you skirt the edge of the poplar-fringed lake and its busy inland port. The mountain sea is drained by the Putu-ho, an affluent of the Kin-sha-kiang, or River of Golden Sand, as the Yang-tsé is called in its upper reaches.",
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