Etymology

nanking

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Mandarin 南京
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from南京
  2. English todayNanking

From the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 南京, reinforced by Postal Romanization from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

Words from the same roots

Mandarin南京 all →

Nanjing

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.