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Jinning

Syllables: Jin·ning/d͡ʒɪnˈnɪŋ/

Jinning proper noun: a rural township in Kinmen County, Taiwan.

Proper noun (1)

Jinning

  1. A rural township in Kinmen County, Taiwan.
    • On Kinmen’s northwest tip, in Jinning District, the Guningtou Battlefield was the scene of a 56-hour bloodbath that began when Communist troops landed on the shore in the early hours of October 24, 1949.[…]
    • Erected in 1812, the Memorial Arch to Ciou Liang-gong’s (Qiu Liang-gong) Mother, on Jyuguang (Juguang) Road in Jinhu District, to the east of Jinning, celebrates the virtuous mother of Ciou Liang-song (Qiu Liang-gong), a governor-general of Zhejiang province in mainland China who was a resident of...2007, Phil Macdonald, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan, 2nd edition (Travel), National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 200–202

Proper noun (2)

Jinning

  1. A district of Kunming, Yunnan, China.
    • The finds at Shihchaishan, near Chinning county in Yunnan province, deserve special mention. Between 1955 and 1960 some 40 tombs of the Kingdom of Tien of the Western Han period were unearthed there.[1973 July, Hsia Nai, “600,000 Years of Labor and Struggle (II) — Exhibition of Archaeological Finds in New China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXII, number 7, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN...
    • The conflict was set off by efforts to build a logistics center for the distribution of manufactured goods in Jinning, a county under Kunming’s jurisdiction, the Kunming government said in a statement on Wednesday.[…]
    • Some residents in Jinning voiced doubt that the men trucked into the village were construction workers,[…].2014 October 15, Austin Ramzy, “8 Killed in Clash Over Development in Southwestern China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2022, Sinosphere

Forms of Jinning

alternative formKinning
alternative formChinning

Origin of Jinning

From the Mandarin 金寧 (Jīnníng).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 晉寧 /晋宁 (Jìnníng).

Questions about Jinning

What does Jinning mean?
Jinning means a rural township in Kinmen County, Taiwan.
What part of speech is Jinning?
Jinning is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Jinning?
Jinning is pronounced /d͡ʒɪnˈnɪŋ/.

Words near Jinning in the dictionary

  1. jinni
  2. jinnia
  3. jinnias
  4. jinnie
  5. jinnies
  6. Jinning
  7. Jinningian
  8. jinnis
  9. jinniwink
  10. jinniwinks
  11. jinniyah

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