Etymology

Xinghualing

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Today it means: A district of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. Full definition →

Mandarin 杏花嶺 /杏花岭
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from杏花嶺 /杏花岭
  2. English todayXinghualing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 杏花嶺 /杏花岭 (Xìnghuālǐng, literally “apricot blossom ridge”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.