Anking
English
Etymology
From the Postal Map romanization of Mandarin 安慶／安庆 (Ānqìng).
Pronunciation
- enPR: änʹkǐngʹ
Proper noun
Anking
- Dated form of Anqing.
- 1913, Arthur R. Gray; Arthur M. Sherman, The Story of the Church in China, New York: The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, page 220:
- Adjoining the province of Kiangsu is the province of Anhui and in two of its river cities, Wuhu and Anking, we have centers of work.
- 1922, Herold Speakman, Beyond Shanghai, The Abingdon Press, page 97:
- Plainly it was not the custom for a foreigner to travel down the Yangtze on a small boat, for no sooner was I nicely settled on the deck of a tug about to leave for Anking, ninety miles down the river, than a boatload of Chinese river police pulled alongside and requested to see my passport.
- 1927, William James Hail, Tsêng Kuo Fan And The Taiping Rebellion: With a Short Sketch of His Later Career, Yale University Press, OCLC 1027538276, page 188:
- But Anhui as a whole was still far from conquered ; the Taipings remained in Anking and only small detachments of loyal troops were available for necessary attacks on a few specific localities.
- 1973, Jen, Yu-wen, The Taiping Revolutionary Movement, Yale University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 72-91299, OCLC 760607036, pages 214-215:
- By autumn 1856, practically all the cities in North Anhwei had been lost to the Imperialists but T’ung-ch’eng, north of Anking.
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Further reading
- “Anking”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- Anking at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “Anking”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “Anking” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
Anagrams
- naking