Meanings
alternative Anching · alternative Anch'ing · alternative An-ch'ing · alternative An-chʻing · alternative Anking · alternative Ngankin
- A prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
The attack happened on Saturday afternoon, on a shopping street in Anqing city, Anhui province, which is located around 430 kilometers from Shanghai.
2021 June 6, Tanika Godbole, “China: Man with knife kills 6 on commercial street”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2021, News2 more examples
Another major producer of sodium cyanide, Anhui Shuguang, appears to have a subsidiary located not only close to a residential area of Anqing in Anhui Province, but also only a few hundred feet from the Yangtze River in central China. The Times found a kindergarten and another school within 1,000 meters of the factory.
2015 August 21, Patrick Boehler, Josh Keller, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Vanessa Piao, Crystal Tse, “Tianjin Blast Exposes the Dangerous Proximity of Toxic Chemicals in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2015In addition to conventional weather monitoring technology, Anqing city in China's Anhui province is using virtual reality goggles linked to river-monitoring cameras that use 5G internet to transmit images to inspectors, according to Xinhua.
2020 August 20, “What's behind China's record floods?”, in France 24, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2020Synonyms: Hwaining
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
Origin
- Mandarin安慶 /安庆
- EnglishAnqing
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 安慶 /安庆 (Ānqìng).
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Chinese Cantonese 安慶 /安庆
- 安慶 /安庆 (on¹ hing³)prefecture-level city in Anhui
Chinese Mandarin 安慶 /安庆
- 安慶 /安庆 (Ānqìng)prefecture-level city in Anhui
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Anqing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Anqing
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