In terms of transliterations of its name, "Kinmen" is based on the 19th-century Chinese postal system. From the 1980s, following the rapprochement of mainland China with the United States, the Hanyu Pinyin system used by mainland China became more common, and so when foreign scholars and journalists speak of Kinmen, they for the most part use "Jinmen."
在譯名部分，國內現行金門的英文譯名為 Kinmen，是 19 世紀的譯稱，因中國 1980 年代與美國建交，中國大陸慣用的漢語拼音逐漸普及，外國學者或記者提及金門時，多半以 Jinmen 為譯稱。