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Anning
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ānníng
English
Etymology 1
Proper noun
en.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from en cmn ^安寧.
Alternative forms
en An-ning Wade-Giles
Pronunciation
en /ˌɑːnˈnɪŋ/
änʹnǐngʹen 1952 Anning Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 76 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/76/ 2
en An ning
Proper noun
en county-level city prefecture-level city/Kunming p/Yunnan c/China.
en 1947 w:Joseph F. Rock Introduction The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of Southwest China https://archive.org/details/ancientnakhiosso0001unse/ 1 Cambridge, Mass. w:Harvard University Press 359533 29557251M 15 https://archive.org/details/ancientnakhiosso0001unse/page/15/ From Pi-chi Kuan to An-ning chou zh 安甯州 (now An-ning hsien) is 50 li. An-ning is a walled city lying in a valley at an altitude of 6,000 feet. In ancient days it was the T’ang-lang-ch’uan zh 螳螂川 (Mantis stream) of the Tien Kingdom. A small trail here branches off to the town of Wu-ting zh 武定, three stages to the north of K’un-ming and a distance of 210 li from An-ning. (A motorroad has now been built.) on
en 2014 Yangtze River Delta Earth First! Environmental Group Events in Today's China w:Alexander Reid Ross Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781849351898/ w:AK Press 978-1-84935-194-2 2013952049 859192389 CNPC’s refinery comprises one of the auxiliary infrastructures of Sino-Burma crude oil pipelines, which just entered the Industrial Park of Anning City, Yunnan Province in 2013. The pipeline stands at the windward of the “City of Eternal Spring” and upstream side of the “City of Water Shortage,” Kunming.
en October 10, 2016 Chen Aizhu; Aung Hla Tun New China refinery faces delay as Myanmar seeks extra oil tax: sources https://web.archive.org/web/20161010075045/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-myanmar-oil-idUSKCN12A0JF 10 October 2018 w:Reuters Commodities https://archive.ph/cSwyd PetroChina has also been building a 260,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery at Anning in Yunnan province to process the oil, which so far can only be stored in tanks.
en river p/Sichuan c/China.
en 1913 Elizabeth Kendall The Chien-ch'ang A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia https://archive.org/details/wayfarerinchinai00kendrich/ Houghton Mifflin Company 1063136306 71 https://archive.org/details/wayfarerinchinai00kendrich/page/71/ THE second day after leaving Hui-li-chou we entered the valley of the Anning Ho, a grey, fast-flowing stream whose course runs parallel with the meridian like all the others of that interesting group of rivers between Assam and eastern Szechuan, the Irrawaddy, the Sal ween, the Mekong, the Yangtse, the Yalung. The Anning, the smallest of these, lies enclosed in a wilderness of tangled ranges, and its valley forms the shortest trade route between Szechuan and the Indo-Chinese peninsula.
Synonyms
en Nganning dated
Translations
river
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 安寧
Mandarin: cmn 安寧 Ānníng
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 2008 Anning Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 143 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/143/ 3
Anagrams
en aginnn Ning'an ninang gannin Ginnan
en heteronyms