Neijiang

English

Alternative forms

• Nei-chiang (Wade–Giles)
• Neikiang (Postal Romanization)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 內江 / 内江 (Nèijiāng).

Proper noun

Neijiang

1. A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
   • [1925 April 25, “Szechwan's Controversy Over Salt Revenue”, in The China Weekly Review, volume XXXII, number 8, sourced from Independent Herald (Hankow), →OCLC, page 232, column 2:

     Governor Lai left today for Neichiang, which is west of Chungking and is about midway between the city and Chengtu where General Yang establishes his headquarters and stations a large portion of his troops. With the Civil Governor and General Teng moving to Neichiang, it is certian^{[sic – meaning certain]} that fighting will break out in that section of the province.]

   • 1981, Yuzhang Wu, Recollections of the Revolution of 1911: A Great Democratic Revolution of China‎^[2], Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 25–26:

     Duan Fang took with him a contingent of the new army of Hubei, but they had established connections with members of the Revolutionary League at Wanxian and Neijiang, staged an uprising at Zizhou and killed Duan Fang. Following this, members of the Revolutionary League staged an uprising at Neijiang and other counties. By this time a part of the new army of Sichuan had also launched an uprising in the vicinity of Chengdu and had begun to march to Chongqing.

   • 2005 July 26, “New disease is not SARS, China says”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 August 2023, Health‎^[4]:

     As of Saturday, 58 people were suspected to have the disease in the neighboring cities of Ziyang and Neijiang, the Sichuan health department said in a statement.

Translations

prefecture-level city in China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 內江 / 内江 (zh) (Nèijiāng)

• Hungarian: Nejcsiang (hu)

Further reading

• Neijiang, Nei-chiang, Neichiang, Neikiang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Neijiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2139, column 3