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Ningwu
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Níngwǔ
English
Ningwu County
Alternative forms
en Ning-wu Wade-Giles
Etymology
The atonal pinyin romanization of the en cmn 寧武, a clipping of zh 寧武關 Pacified Military Pass.
Pronunciation
nĭng′wo͞o′Ningwu 1327 2
en Ning wu
Proper noun
en mountain pass and important gate in the Great Wall p/Shanxi c/China.
en county prefecture-level city/Xinzhou province/Shanxi c/China.
en 1970 Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts https://books.google.com/books?id=V5kbA7phNV4C 1541329 B 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=V5kbA7phNV4C&pg=RA14-PP10 The last item, also a news report , deals with the rural medical cooperation system of a production brigade in Ningwu County, Shansi Province, which has been developed through PLA assistance.
en 1985 Frank Leeming The Chinese forests Rural China Today https://archive.org/details/ruralchinatoday0000leem/ w:Longman 0-582-30144-0 83-25617 1087938030 3182902M 138 https://archive.org/details/ruralchinatoday0000leem/page/138/ 2 A classic problem case is reported from Ningwu county in northern Shanxi (People's Daily, 23 Mar. 1980). In this area, a rural household uses 30 jin of firewood daily, of which one-half may be sound mature timber.
en JANUARY 21, 2007 China coal mine blast kills 13 in Shanxi https://web.archive.org/web/20220505235007/https://www.reuters.com/article/idUST271756 05 May 2022 w:Reuters Latest Crisis The explosion took place on Friday at Niuxinhui Coal Mine in Ningwu county of Shanxi province, when 30 miners were working underground, Xinhua said, citing Tan Shengwang, head of the county's work safety administration.
en
Synonyms
pass en Ningwuguan
Translations
pass
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 寧武關
Japanese: ja
county
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 寧武
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
Ningwu, Ning-wu
en 1998 Ningwu Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2190 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/2190/ 1
en 2-syllable words