Anching

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English

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Etymology

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From Mandarin 安慶安庆 (Ānqìng), Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-chʻing⁴.

Proper noun

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Anching

  1. Alternative form of Anqing
    • 1908 October 22, Henry Bridgeman, “The Diary of Hon Henry Bridgeman”, in I Remember it Well: The Diaries, Recollections and Art of Three Generations over Three Centuries[1], published 2015, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 171:
      Weighed anchor early and came down to Ngankin or Anching as it is now generally called.
    • 1973 March 31, “Peking's Man in Washington”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 June 2023, page 18[3]:
      Huang Chen was born into a peasant family in southwest Anhwei and went to school in Anching, a Yangtze port city 30 miles from his []
    • 2009, Bill Porter, “No Mind”, in Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China[4], Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 160:
      The bus I was on was headed for the Yangtze port of Anching, but it stopped on its way through Chienshan to let me and several other passengers off.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Anching.

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