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Hsi-ning

Hsi-ning is the alternative form of Xining.

Meaning of Xining

Proper noun

Xining

  1. A city in northwestern China, capital of Qinghai Province.
    • Tibetan is found predominantly in Tibet; Tibetan-speaking communities are also found in Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan, and Gansu. In Tibet, all official documents are issued in both Tibetan and Chinese, and also in certain regions of Sichuan and Qinghai. Moreover, the radio stations in Tibet broadcast...1975, “The National Minority Languages of China”, in Winfred P. Lehmann, editor, Language and Linguistics in the People's Republic of China, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119

Origin of Hsi-ning

From Mandarin 西寧 /西宁 (Xīníng), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-ning².

Questions about Hsi-ning

What is Hsi-ning the alternative form of?
Hsi-ning is the alternative form of Xining.

Words near Hsi-ning in the dictionary

  1. HSI
  2. Hsi Hu
  3. Hsi-an
  4. Hsi-ch'uan
  5. Hsi-ling
  6. Hsi-ning
  7. Hsi-sha
  8. Hsi-shuang-pan-na
  9. Hsi-shui
  10. Hsi-tsang
  11. Hsi-tsang Tzu-chih-ch'ü

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hsi-ning (page history and authors); Xining (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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