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Nankai

Syllables: Nan·kai

Nankai proper noun: a district of Tianjin, China.

Proper noun

Nankai

  1. A district of Tianjin, China.
    • Beginning with study and research, the Finance Bureau and the Coal and Building Materials Supply Company of Tientsin's Nan-k'ai District used the method of "chieh-p'ou ma-ch'iao" [translating 解剖麻雀] to help the coal industry's retail sales departments improve business management, strengthen...[1961 October 11 [1961 June 18], Ch'en Sheng-jung (7115 -- 2837) [陳--榮], Jung Yu-hsin (2837 3768 --) [榮玉--], “Tientsin's Nan-k'ai District Sales Units Improve Business Management”, in Translations...
    • In the Nankai District of Tianjin, 20 percent of 2,555 individual businesspeople were illiterate, mainly housewives, 40 percent were primary school graduates, 15 percent junior middle school graduates, and 35 percent senior middle school graduates. That district reported five or six college...1986, Marcia Yudkin [尤德金], “Who Are China's Individual Businesspeople?”, in Making Good: Private Business in Socialist China [社会主义中国的个体经济], 1st edition, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN...

Origin of Nankai

From Mandarin 南開 /南开 (Nánkāi).

Words that rhyme with Nankai

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Questions about Nankai

What does Nankai mean?
Nankai means a district of Tianjin, China.
What part of speech is Nankai?
Nankai is a proper noun.

Words near Nankai in the dictionary

  1. Nanjinger
  2. Nanjingers
  3. Nanjingese
  4. Nanjō
  5. nank
  6. Nankai
  7. Nankan
  8. Nankang
  9. nanked
  10. nankeen
  11. nankeen kestrel

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