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Chi-ning

Chi-ning is the alternative form of Jining.

Meaning of Jining

Proper noun (1)

Jining

  1. A prefecture-level city in southwestern Shandong, China.
    • To top it off, the central branch in Jining loudly endorsed the experience of Teng County by declaring, at the region’s meeting of county bank managers and agricultural credit co-operative directors, “learn from Teng County; continue to mine the potential; go all out in savings accounts. Don’t be...1980, Hugh Thomas, transl., Comrade Editor: Letters to the People's Daily, Hongkong: Joint Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 195

Proper noun (2)

Jining

  1. A district of Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China; a former county-level city of Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
    • Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni confirmed Tuesday that Monsignor Antonio Yao Shun had received a papal mandate. He was therefore legitimately consecrated bishop of Jining, in Inner Mongolia, at a ceremony Monday.2019 August 27, “First Chinese bishop consecrated with pope’s OK after deal”, in AP News, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2023

Origin of Chi-ning

From Mandarin 濟寧 /济宁 (Jǐníng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chi³-ning².

Questions about Chi-ning

What is Chi-ning the alternative form of?
Chi-ning is the alternative form of Jining.

Words near Chi-ning in the dictionary

  1. chi-ikes
  2. chi-iking
  3. Chi-lin
  4. Chi-lung
  5. Chi-nan
  6. Chi-ning
  7. chi-rho
  8. chi-rhos
  9. chi-square
  10. chi-square distribution
  11. chi-square distributions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chi-ning (page history and authors); Jining (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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