Sining

See also: sining

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 西寧／西宁 (Xīníng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: shēʹnĭngʹ

Proper noun

Sining

1. Dated form of Xining.
   • 1909, William Edgar Geil, The Great Wall of China‎^[1], London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, W., page 286:

     Then there is the newly organised police force, and the modernising of the troops. For Sining is not only a city of temples and yamens, but of barracks. Here are quartered two hundred horse and two thousand foot soldiers.

   • 1937, Ella K. Maillart, Forbidden Journey: From Peking to Kashmir‎^[2], William Heinemann Ltd, page 53:

     Peter had the bright idea of at once looking up C. C. Ku, to whom we had an introduction from his brother, a student in Peking. Ku spoke fluent English, having studied at Cornell University. He had been sent from Nanking to Sining with the rank of lieutenant-general, and succeeded in making a good impression on “The Young General,” Ma Bu-fang.

   • 1942, Violet Cressy-Marcks, “GREAT NORTH-WEST”, in Journey Into China‎^[3], New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., →OCLC, page 280:

     We had planned to go in two days, though no official permission had yet arrived for us to leave Lanchow. We had done little about it, except to inform a Foreign Office official and the Governor that we wished to go further west. Frank wanted to see farms between here and Sining, and I wanted to go to Koko Nor Lake.

Further reading

• “Sining, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Sining”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• sign in, sing-in, singin'