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Hui-ning

Hui-ning is the alternative form of Huining.

Meaning of Huining

Proper noun

Huining

  1. A county of Baiyin, Gansu, China.
    • My wife used to work in the countryside, but I had her brought into town to look after me, thus turning her into an idle consumer. This is an extremely dangerous trend, and I should emulate the comrades of Huining County, Kansu Province, by returning with my family to my native village to...1969 January 2 [1968 December 22], Li Tou-tai, quotee, “Mao's Latest Instruction Encourages Masses”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 1, Foreign Broadcast Information Service...
  2. Synonym of Hoeryong: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • The mineral resources of Kirin province have never been adequately studied. They are known to include, however, in addition to the gold and copper now being mined in the T’ien Pao Shan district contiguous to the proposed Huining (Kainei in Japanese) terminus of the Kirin-Tunhua-Huining railway...1928 July, C. Walter Young, “Chinese Colonization in Manchuria”, in The Far Eastern Review, volume XXIV, number 7, →OCLC, page 299, column 1
    Synonyms:
    Hoeryong

Origin of Hui-ning

From Mandarin 會寧 (Huìníng), Wade–Giles romanization: Hui⁴-ning².

Questions about Hui-ning

What is Hui-ning the alternative form of?
Hui-ning is the alternative form of Huining.

Words near Hui-ning in the dictionary

  1. huhu beetles
  2. huhus
  3. hui
  4. Hui'an
  5. Hui-lung
  6. Hui-ning
  7. huia
  8. Huian
  9. huias
  10. Huichol
  11. Huicholes

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