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Ning-Po

Ning-Po is the alternative form of Ningbo.

Meaning of Ningbo

Proper noun

Ningbo

  1. A port city, prefecture-level city, and subprovincial city in eastern Zhejiang, China.
    • The containers were shipped from the eastern Chinese port of Ningbo to Piraeus by sea, and were then transported to Budapest in two trains that reached on Jan. 29 and Feb. 5, according to China's official People's Daily newspaper.2017 February 8, “New land-sea route opens between China and central Europe”, in EFE, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2017
    Synonyms:
    Yinxian

Proper noun capitalized: Ning-po

Ning-po

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Ningbo.
    • WE departed from Ning-po the 26th of November 1687, in order to go to Pe-king, where we were call’d by the Emperor, embarking in the Evening with a Mandarin, who was appointed us by the Governor.1738, J. B. Du Halde, A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet, volume I, London, →OCLC, page 34
    • Over-congestion and limited resources had forced many Shao-hsing and Ning-po people to earn their livings elsewhere, a phenomenon which deeply struck a scholar-official of Shanghai in the sixteenth century.1962, Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, published 1964, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 253

Origin of Ning-Po

From Mandarin 寧波／宁波 (Níngbō), compare with Wade–Giles romanization: Ning²-po¹.

Questions about Ning-Po

What is Ning-Po the alternative form of?
Ning-Po is the alternative form of Ningbo.
What part of speech is Ning-Po?
Ning-Po is a proper noun.

Words near Ning-Po in the dictionary

  1. ning nongs
  2. Ning'an
  3. Ning-hsia
  4. ning-nong
  5. ning-nongs
  6. Ning-Po
  7. Ning-te
  8. Ning-wu
  9. Ningan
  10. ningaui
  11. ningauis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ning-Po (page history and authors); Ning-po (page history and authors); Ningbo (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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