Meanings
- datedDated form of Anqing.
By autumn 1856, practically all the cities in North Anhwei had been lost to the Imperialists but T’ung-ch’eng, north of Anking.
1973, Jen Yu-wen, The Taiping Revolutionary Movement, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 214–2153 more examples
Adjoining the province of Kiangsu is the province of Anhui and in two of its river cities, Wuhu and Anking, we have centers of work.
1913, Arthur R. Gray, Arthur M. Sherman, The Story of the Church in China, New York: The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, page 220Plainly it was not the custom for a foreigner to travel down the Yangtze on a small boat, for no sooner was I nicely settled on the deck of a tug about to leave for Anking, ninety miles down the river, than a boatload of Chinese river police pulled alongside and requested to see my passport.
1922, Herold Speakman, Beyond Shanghai, The Abingdon Press, page 97But Anhui as a whole was still far from conquered ; the Taipings remained in Anking and only small detachments of loyal troops were available for necessary attacks on a few specific localities.
1927, William James Hail, Tsêng Kuo Fan And The Taiping Rebellion: With a Short Sketch of His Later Career, Yale University Press, →OCLC, page 188
Origin
- Mandarin安慶 /安庆
- EnglishAnking
From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 安慶 /安庆 (Ānqìng), from before the modern palatalization of [kʰ] to [t͡ɕʰ].
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