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Nanping

Syllables: Nan·ping

Nanping proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Fujian, China.

Proper noun

Nanping

  1. A prefecture-level city of Fujian, China.
    • Work centers in Nanping (formerly called Yenping) where are located the Nanping General Hospital and a high school for boys and girls. The conference has about 50 churches and 3,000 members. This conference is in Free China. Refugee institutions from Foochow have been temporarily located within the...1944, Arthur J. Moore, Christ After Chaos, New York: Board of Missions and Church Extension The Methodist Church, →OCLC, page 32
    • We traveled down the Min River from Nanping in a small sampan, flying the American flag for protection against bandits and soldiers. Those were the days when the Stars and Stripes still afforded some protection.1953, John C. Caldwell, China Coast Family, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 96

Examples of Nanping in a sentence

  • Work centers in Nanping (formerly called Yenping) where are located the Nanping General Hospital and a high school for boys and girls.1944, Arthur J. Moore, Christ After Chaos, New York: Board of Missions and Church Extension The Methodist Church, →OCLC, page 32:
  • Parents burn paper money to mourn for school students who were stabbed to death by a man at a primary school in Nanping, Fujian province March 24, 2010.2010 April 12, “China stabbings spur public call for school security”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 07 May 2022, World News:

Forms of Nanping

alternative formNan-p'ing

Origin of Nanping

From Mandarin 南平 (Nánpíng).

Words formed from Nanping

Questions about Nanping

What does Nanping mean?
Nanping means a prefecture-level city of Fujian, China.
How do you use Nanping in a sentence?
Work centers in Nanping (formerly called Yenping) where are located the Nanping General Hospital and a high school for boys and girls.
What part of speech is Nanping?
Nanping is a proper noun.

Words near Nanping in the dictionary

  1. Nanpantan
  2. Nanpean
  3. Nanpiao
  4. nanpie
  5. nanpies
  6. Nanping
  7. nanpingite
  8. Nanquin
  9. Nanri
  10. nans
  11. Nansana

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