Nanping
See also: Nánpíng
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Nan-p'ing
Etymology
From Mandarin 南平 (Nánpíng).
Pronunciation
- enPR: nänʹpǐngʹ
Proper noun
Nanping
- A prefecture-level city in Fujian, China.
- 1944, Moore, Arthur J., Christ After Chaos, New York: Board of Missions and Church Extension The Methodist Church, OCLC 642327, page 32:
- Work centers in Nanping (formerly called Yenping) where are located the Nanping General Hospital and a high school for boys and girls. The conference has about 50 churches and 3,000 members. This conference is in Free China. Refugee institutions from Foochow have been temporarily located within the Yenping Conference—the Hwa Nan College and Hwa Nan High School at Nanping, and the Anglo-Chinese College and Union Kindergarten Training School at Yankow.
- 1953, John C. Caldwell, China Coast Family, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, LCCN 53-9623, OCLC 1199230, page 96:
- We traveled down the Min River from Nanping in a small sampan, flying the American flag for protection against bandits and soldiers. Those were the days when the Stars and Stripes still afforded some protection.
- 2010 April 12, “China stabbings spur public call for school security”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 07 May 2022, World News:
- Parents burn paper money to mourn for school students who were stabbed to death by a man at a primary school in Nanping, Fujian province March 24, 2010.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nanping.
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Derived terms
- nanpingite
Translations
prefecture-level city in Fujian
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Anagrams
- panning