"Kangju 康居 = the Talas basin, Tashkent and Sogdiana. It is not clear whether the Chinese name 康居 Kangju was intended to transcribe an ethnic name, or to be descriptive. 居 ju can mean: 'to settle down,' 'to take up one’s abode,' 'residence,' or 'to occupy (militarily).'... The term, therefore, could simply mean "the abode of the Kang," or "territory occupied by the Kang."... However, the character kang 康 literally means 'peaceful,' 'happy,' so Kangju could alternatively be translated as the: ‘Peaceful Land,' or 'Abode of the Peaceful (people).'... Even if the name Kangju was originally an attempt to transcribe a foreign name, it would have at least carried some sense of it being a peaceful place to Chinese speakers, and the name Kang would have had overtones of a peaceful people."〔Hill (2009), p. 171.〕