Jiàn​yè

historical Nanjing

建业 (建業) Jiàn​yè
historical Nanjing verb
an old name for Nanjing, called 建康 Jiàn​kāng or Jianye during the Eastern Jin (317-420)

He first heard of the ancient name Jianye while reading history books.

Frequency

Written text
3.43 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)