Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Anqing.
Weighed anchor early and came down to Ngankin or Anching as it is now generally called.
1908 October 22, Henry Bridgeman, “The Diary of Hon Henry Bridgeman”, in I Remember it Well: The Diaries, Recollections and Art of Three Generations over Three Centuries, published 2015, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1712 more examples
Huang Chen was born into a peasant family in southwest Anhwei and went to school in Anching, a Yangtze port city 30 miles from his[…]
1973 March 31, “Peking's Man in Washington”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2023, page 18The bus I was on was headed for the Yangtze port of Anching, but it stopped on its way through Chienshan to let me and several other passengers off.
2009, Bill Porter, “No Mind”, in Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 160
Origin
- Mandarin安慶 /安庆
- EnglishAnching
From Mandarin 安慶 /安庆 (Ānqìng), Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-chʻing⁴.
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