Anning
See also: ānníng
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) An-ning
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 安寧/安宁 (Ānníng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɑːnˈnɪŋ/
Proper noun
Anning
- A county-level city in Kunming, Yunnan, China.
- 2016 October 10, Chen, Aizhu; Aung Hla Tun, “New China refinery faces delay as Myanmar seeks extra oil tax: sources”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 10 October 2018, Commodities:
- PetroChina has also been building a 260,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery at Anning in Yunnan province to process the oil, which so far can only be stored in tanks.
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- A river in Sichuan, China.
- 1913, Kendall, Elizabeth, “The Chien-ch'ang”, in A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia, Houghton Mifflin Company, OCLC 1063136306, page 71:
- THE second day after leaving Hui-li-chou we entered the valley of the Anning Ho, a grey, fast-flowing stream whose course runs parallel with the meridian like all the others of that interesting group of rivers between Assam and eastern Szechuan, the Irrawaddy, the Sal ween, the Mekong, the Yangtse, the Yalung. The Anning, the smallest of these, lies enclosed in a wilderness of tangled ranges, and its valley forms the shortest trade route between Szechuan and the Indo-Chinese peninsula.
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Synonyms
- (dated) Nganning
Translations
river
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Anagrams
- Ginnan, gannin, ninang