Hsi-ning

See also: Hsining

English

Map including HSI-NING (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 西寧 / 西宁 (Xīníng), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-ning².

Pronunciation

• enPR: shēʹnĭngʹ

Proper noun

Hsi-ning

1. Alternative form of Xining
   • 1894, William Woodville Rockhill, Diary of a Journey Through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891 and 1892‎^[1], Smithsonian Institution, →OCLC, →OL, page 188:

     When we had finished tea the Jalang put on a portentously solemn expression and said that it was reported that a dispatch had reached Taichinār Dzassak viâ Korluk from the Hsi-ning Amban, by which all the chiefs of the Ts'aidam were forbidden to supply guides, ponies provisions or camels to a certain foreigner with a Pekinese cook and several Hsi-ning followers, who was desirous of going to Tibet.

   • 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, ATLAS OF CHINA‎^[2], McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 74:

     A highway also connects Lan-chou with Hsi-ning in Tsinghai Province. The Tsinghai-Tibet Highway further stretches 2,100 kilometers from Hsi-ning through Ko-erh-mu across the Kunlun Mountains to Lhasa, making Ko-erh-mu the new highway center of Kansu, Sinkiang, and Tibet.

   • 1982, Alexandra David-Neel, Aphur Yongden, translated by Janwillem van de Wetering, The Power of Nothingness‎^[3], Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:

     Hsi-ning, to a simple herdsman, is a metropolis of enormous proportions. Munpa had visited Hsi-ning before, and now again he felt lost in its crowded streets, and gaped at the impossible variety of articles displayed in the stores.

   • 1998, Jane Hoehner, editor, Explorers & Discoverers‎^[4], volume 6, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71:

     They followed an ancient caravan route that took them west along the Great Wall of China to the Yellow River and Hsi-ning (now Xining), at that time the westernmost city of China.

Translations

Xining — see Xining

Further reading

• “Hsi-ning”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Hsi-ning”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Hsi-ning” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• shining