Maoming

See also: Mao-ming, Màomíng, and màomíng

English

Alternative forms

• Mao-ming (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 茂名 (Màomíng), named after Pan Maoming during the Sui dynasty.

Proper noun

Maoming

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China.
   • 1919 November [1919 July 5], “Tungchan Chronicle”, in The Field Afar‎^[1], Catholic Foreign Mission Bureau of Boston, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 239, column 2:

     On the Glorious Fourth Fr. Gauthier said good-bye to Tungchan and the two of us set off to visit the part of the mission that is in Maoming. The first village, lying up in the mountains about twenty miles from Tungchan, was Naamshaantung, where there are about thirty baptized Christians.

   • 1962, Raymond Kerrison, Bishop Walsh of Maryknoll‎^[2], New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:

     With the arrival of Maryknoll's second group, Bishop de Guebriant enlarged their territory. He gave them the prefecture of Maoming, a large slice of country to the west of Kwangtung, including the important city of Kochow, which had no resident priest.

   • 2008 July 23, Aizhu Chen, “Sinopec Maoming's expansion likely after 2010”, in Jonathan Hopfner, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 10 May 2022, Oil Report:

     Under Maoming’s expansion proposals, the plant, in Maoming city in western Guangdong, also plans to add a 48,000-bpd hydrocracker, a 36,000-bpd hydrotreating unit and a 400,000 tonne-per-year aromatics facility, the refinery said.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Maoming.

Synonyms

• (dated, from Cantonese) Mauming

Translations

city

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 茂名 (mau⁶ ming⁴)

  Mandarin: 茂名 (zh) (Màomíng)

• Hungarian: Maoming (hu)
• Macedonian: Маоминг m (Maoming)

Further reading

• Maoming, Mao-ming at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Maoming”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1878, column 2

Anagrams

• ammoing