Sinkiang
Sinkiang proper noun: synonym of Xinjiang: A Uyghur autonomous region of China, located in the sparsely populated northwest.
Proper noun
Sinkiang
- Synonym of Xinjiang: A Uyghur autonomous region of China, located in the sparsely populated northwest.
- I, the Minister, having received this dispatch have examined and find it contains, that having arrested three culprits Tsáutsz' Láutá, Hwá Kwányuen and Cháng Süchun, they have been sentenced to decapitation, and their heads to be hung up in a cage upon a pole to public view; and six others Cháng...[1848 September 22, 徐廣縉 [Sü Kwángtsin], “Official Correspondence relating to the death of the Rev. Walter M. Lowrie”, in The Chinese Repository, volume XVII, number 9, chapter 3, page 486
- Soviet tanks and planes were also sent into Sinkiang, and even troops, who were called "Altai Volunteers." These "volunteers" appear to have been a mixture of trained Soviet troops with Russians, domiciled in Sinkiang, who years before had fought against or fled from the Soviet Revolution.1944, Owen Lattimore, “Introduction: Sinkiang's Place in the Future of China”, in Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West, New York: The John Day Company, →OCLC, page 16
- Synonyms:
- Xinjiang
Examples of Sinkiang in a sentence
- In Sinkiang, in Northwest China, we were on the Chinese side of Asia's inner ethnic frontier.1948, Henry A. Wallace, Andrew Jacob Steiger, Soviet Asia Mission, →OCLC, →OL, page 155:
- "Earlier we ordered him to inspect the goods of the Andijans who traded at Sinkiang.1966, Lo-shu Fu, A Documentary Chronicle of Sino-Western Relations (1644–1820), University of Arizona Press, page 307:
- A similar demonstration was held at Aksu in Sinkiang on Nov. 21, 1980, the report said, adding that the situation in Sinkiang is worsening.1981 February 22, “Anti-Red demonstrations”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 7, Taipei, page 3:
- Towards this end, it set up a giant polysilicon factory near Kashgar in Sinkiang.2020 June 9, Iqbal Chand Malhotra, “Smoking mirrors: The illusion of the LAC”, in Times Now:
Synonyms of Sinkiang
Forms of Sinkiang
| alternative misspelling | Singkiang |
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Origin of Sinkiang
From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 新疆 (Xīnjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].
Questions about Sinkiang
- What does Sinkiang mean?
- Sinkiang means synonym of Xinjiang: A Uyghur autonomous region of China, located in the sparsely populated northwest.
- How do you use Sinkiang in a sentence?
- In Sinkiang, in Northwest China, we were on the Chinese side of Asia's inner ethnic frontier.
- What part of speech is Sinkiang?
- Sinkiang is a proper noun.
Words near Sinkiang in the dictionary
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