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Anking

Anking is the dated form of Anqing.

Meaning of Anqing

Proper noun

Anqing

  1. A prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
    • Another major producer of sodium cyanide, Anhui Shuguang, appears to have a subsidiary located not only close to a residential area of Anqing in Anhui Province, but also only a few hundred feet from the Yangtze River in central China. The Times found a kindergarten and another school within 1,000...2015 August 21, Patrick Boehler, Josh Keller, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Vanessa Piao, Crystal Tse, “Tianjin Blast Exposes the Dangerous Proximity of Toxic Chemicals in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN...
    Synonyms:
    Hwaining

Origin of Anking

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 安慶 /安庆 (Ānqìng), from before the modern palatalization of [kʰ] to [t͡ɕʰ].

Questions about Anking

What is Anking the dated form of?
Anking is the dated form of Anqing.

Words near Anking in the dictionary

  1. ankhus
  2. ankhuses
  3. Ankify
  4. Ankileng
  5. ankimo
  6. Anking
  7. ankinovichite
  8. Ankit
  9. Ankita
  10. Ankitas
  11. ankle

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