Ningshan

English

Alternative forms

• Ning-shan (Wade–Giles)
• Ningshaan

Etymology

From Mandarin 寧陝 / 宁陕.

Pronunciation

• enPR: nǐngʹshänʹ

Proper noun

Ningshan

1. A county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1971, Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East‎^[2], British Broadcasting Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:

     Sian, Shensi provincial service 13. 00 GMT 11.2.71
     [...]The poor and lower-middle peasants and masses in Ningshan County overcame "calamities" [no details given] and scored bumper agricultural harvests last year.

   • 1973, Jen Yu-wen, “Second Northern Expedition (1861-1868)”, in The Taiping Revolutionary Movement‎^[3], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 473:

     Those on the northerly route reached Ning-shan on February 16th, were joined there by a surviving group of Shih Ta-k’ai’s expeditionary soldiers under Cheng Chung-ho, and on March 26th converged at Nei-hsiang as planned with Ma Jung-ho’s army from the southerly route.

   • 2004, Tim Clissold, Mr. China‎^[4], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 208:

     The tiny village of Zhongxi in Ningshan County sat high up in the mountains, miles from anywhere.

   • 2022 January 4, Nectar Gan, Steve George, “Outcry over Xi’an lockdown tests limits of China’s zero-Covid policy”, in CNN‎^[5], archived from the original on 03 January 2022:

     A man trekked for 100 kilometers (62 miles) across the Qinling mountain range from the Xi’an airport, avoiding multiple village checkpoints on the way before he was finally spotted and taken into quarantine on December 24, eight days into his journey, according to a statement from the Ningshan county police.

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

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寧陝 / 宁陕 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Ningshan, Ning-shan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Ningshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2190, column 1

Anagrams

• Hannings