Jinmen

Borrowed from Mandarin 金門／金门 (Jīnmén).

Jinmen

1. Alternative form of Kinmen
   • 2001, He An, “Andante”, in Patricia Sieber, transl.; Patricia Sieber, editor, Red is Not the Only Color: Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories‎, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 178:

     In their senior year, Zhang Zewei had been sent back from the military outpost on Jinmen and reassigned to serve in Zuoying, a more comfortable posting in a small town in the south.

   • 2004 January 23, “Mainland City Greets Taiwan County with Fireworks”, in China Internet Information Center‎, archived from the original on 26 April 2004‎:

     Xiamen City in east China greeted Jinmen County of Taiwan Province with a display of fireworks Thursday night, the first day of the traditional Chinese lunar New Year or Spring Festival.
     Xiamen and Jinmen face each other across the sea. The two started festive greetings by letting off fireworks in 1987, but Jinmen has stopped the tradition due to a lack of funds.

   • 2013 June 3, Mishkin, Sarah, “Taiwan’s small islands turn to tourism to stay afloat”, in Financial Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 April 2022, Asia-Pacific:

     Jinmen, known historically as Quemoy, has had some success building a tourist industry on the back of its even closer link to the mainland, close enough that Taiwanese defectors were said to have swum from there to the Chinese city of Xiamen. The military is also in the process of handing over to civilian control other islands that are now restricted zones, including small islets named Erdan and Dadan.
     The transformation of Matsu and Jinmen’s defences has involved turning kilometres of bomb shelters built in the 1960s into historic sites that tourists can ride gondolas through.

   • 2019 November 19, “Jinmen county (to be unified)”, in Information Office of Quanzhou Municipal People's Government‎, archived from the original on 05 March 2023‎:

     The total area of Jinmen county is 153.06 square kilometers. The county has a registered population of 130,461 people and a cultivated area of 6,487 hectares.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jinmen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1451, column 1
• “Jinmen”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Jinmen” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.