Jianning

• Kienning

Borrowed from Mandarin 建寧／建宁 (Jiànníng).

Jianning

1. A county of Sanming, Fujian, China.
   • [1930, “Department of Ceramics”, in Review of the Principal Acquisitions During the Year 1929‎, Victoria & Albert Museum, →OCLC, page 17:

     Painting appears, but is still essentially subordinate, in the decoration of a small tea-bowl, a specimen of the widely popular type with iron-brown glaze, known in Japan as temmoku. The most famous variety was made at Chien-ning, in Fuchien province, and this is consequently known as “Chien” ware, a name often loosely applied to the whole class.]

2. A former prefecture of Fujian, China; modern Jian'ou.
   • 2009, Eugenio Menegon, Ancestors, Virgins, & Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 75:

     The baojuan mentions Zhenghe 政和 county in Jianning prefecture as one of the first places to which the group spread in Fujian; see Baojuan chuji 1994, 358 (Sanzu xingjiao yinyou baojuan 三祖行腳因由寶卷, 33b).