Zhongning

See also: Zhōngníng

English

Map including Zhongning (NIMA, 1998)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中寧 / 中宁 (Zhōngníng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɔŋ.nɪŋ/, enPR: jo͝ongʹnǐngʹ

Proper noun

Zhongning

1. A county of Zhongwei, Ningxia, China.
   • [1965 July 14, “Reports on Insect Pests and Plant Disease”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts‎^[2], number 134, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, Communist China Regional Affairs, page DDD 1‎^[3]:

     On 17 June Yinchuan claims that wheat rust has been found in a production brigade of Chungning County due to laxness in controlling this disease during the past several days when the brigade was busy transplanting rice.]

   • [1978 November [1978 October 16], “Religious Life Never Interfered With”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[4], volume XVII, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:

     In Hui restaurants in towns such as Wuchung and Chungning, restaurant workers wearing the white caps of the Hui nationality serve customers. Most government institutions, factories and schools in different parts of the autonomous region have set up dining rooms for the Huis, where their special foods are served.]

   • 2021 November 29, “Housekeeper gives Chinese resident a fright after standing outside 9th floor window without safety measures”, in Yahoo! Philippines‎^[5], archived from the original on 22 July 2022:

     A resident was given a fright by their housekeeper who was standing outside the 9th floor of a building without safety measures in northwestern China. Video shot in Zhongning County in Ningxia Province on November 29 shows a housekeeper standing outside a flat on the 9th floor to clean the windows.

   • 2021 December 10, Cheryl Ho, “Police in China send girl, 14, back to parents who allegedly tried to sell her into marriage for $40,000”, in CNN‎^[6], archived from the original on 2021-12-15‎^[7]:

     The teenager called police in Zhongning county, Ningxia region during the wedding on November 24 to say she was being forced into the illegal marriage against her will, according to a post by the local Justice Bureau Monday.

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

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中寧 / 中宁 (zh) (Zhōngníng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhongning”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 2