Ningde
Syllables: Ning·de
Ningde proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Fujian, China.
Proper noun
Ningde
- A prefecture-level city of Fujian, China.
- For instance, 116 of the 286 small projects built in Ningteh, Fukien, either collapsed or became useless by 1963.[1970, Kang Chao, “Notes”, in Agricultural Production in Communist China, 1949-1965, Madison; Milwaukee; London: The University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 333
- These 40,000 are a very interesting people who say they once lived in Kwangtung, but who came up to Chekiang through the high hill tops of Fukien where, in Ningteh county in north-eastern Fukien, 134,000 of them now form the largest group in any one place.[1976, Rewi Alley, “A Visit to Pottery Sites and She People”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XV, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23, column 1
Forms of Ningde
| alternative form | Ning-te |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Ningteh |
Origin of Ningde
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寧德 /宁德 (Níngdé).
Questions about Ningde
- What does Ningde mean?
- Ningde means a prefecture-level city of Fujian, China.
- What part of speech is Ningde?
- Ningde is a proper noun.
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