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Gnihing

Gnihing is the obsolete form of Yixing.

Meaning of Yixing

Proper noun

Yixing

  1. A county-level city of Jiangsu, in eastern China known for pottery.

Origin of Gnihing

From Matteo Ricci's romanization of Chinese 宜興 /宜兴 (Yíxīng), from a dialect where 宜 begins with /ŋ-/ and 興／兴 begins with /h-/.

Questions about Gnihing

What is Gnihing the obsolete form of?
Gnihing is the obsolete form of Yixing.

Words near Gnihing in the dictionary

  1. GNI
  2. gnib
  3. gnidimacrin
  4. Gniew
  5. Gniezno
  6. Gnihing
  7. Gnin
  8. gnip
  9. GNIS
  10. gnisrap
  11. gnit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Gnihing (page history and authors); Yixing (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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