{
 "id": "chiang-mai-kam-mueang",
 "type": "word",
 "names": {
  "name": "เจียงใหม่ chiang mai",
  "th": "เจียงใหม่",
  "rtgs": "chiang mai"
 },
 "region": [
  "lanna"
 ],
 "etymology": {
  "root": "เจียง chiang — a Tai word for a walled settlement, in Chiang Rai, Chiang Saen, Chiang Tung (Kengtung); ใหม่ mai, new. In Kam Mueang the initial is unaspirated, /tɕ/, so the city is Jiang Mai in its own mouth.",
  "tier": "tradition"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The name, in the northern voice. The unaspirated initial is the first thing a listener notices, and the first thing this site's Thai pages do."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ชื่อเมือง ในเสียงเหนือ ตัว จ ที่บ่มีลมคือสิ่งแรกที่คนฟังสังเกต และสิ่งแรกที่หน้าไทยของเว็บนี้ทำ"
 },
 "word": {
  "th": "เจียงใหม่",
  "rtgs": "chiang mai",
  "ipa": "/tɕiaŋ.màj/",
  "standard": "เชียงใหม่",
  "standard_rtgs": "chiang mai",
  "gloss": "Chiang Mai, as the city says its own name",
  "gloss_th": "เชียงใหม่ อย่างที่คนเมืองออกเสียง",
  "example": "เมืองเจียงใหม่",
  "example_gloss": "mueang chiang mai — the city",
  "tai_tham": "ᨩ᩠ᨿᨦᩉ᩠ᨾᩲ᩵",
  "tai_tham_source": "s:wp-tai-tham"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "wiang",
   "as": "What chiang means.",
   "rel": "word"
  }
 ],
 "tags": [
  "lanna"
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:moradok-lanna-dict",
  "s:wp-northern-thai"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition",
   "source": "s:moradok-lanna-dict"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-21",
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "chiang-mai-kam-mueang/chiang-mai-kam-mueang-chiangmai-view.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Chiangmai view.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Chiangmai_view.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AChiangmai_view.jpg",
   "license": "Public domain",
   "license_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain",
   "author": "Thaimissions2006 at English Wikipedia",
   "credit": "Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.",
   "alt": "View from Doi Suthep mountain over Chiang Mai city, northern Thailand",
   "date": "18 April 2007 (original upload date)",
   "primary": true,
   "sha256": "e5a6b14d0bfd38647b4894451c9767a91aeea9ee777e923cd1c4dee68226ba89"
  }
 ],
 "kin_in": []
}