# Tsienkiang

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. Alternative form of Qianjiang.

## Etymology
From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 潛江 /潜江 (Qiánjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tsienkiang