Liao-ning

A form of Liaoning — A province in northeastern China. Capital: Shenyang.

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Liao Ning

  1. alternativedatedAlternative form of Liaoning: A province in northeastern China.

    (Chinese: Shen-Yang) Capital of China's province of Liao-ning, northeast on the Hun River, controlling north-south routes along the plain of south Manchuria.

    2007, “Mukden”, in William R. Keylor, editor, Encyclopedia of the Modern World 1900 to the Present, volume II, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 883
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    The strategic and naturally rich province of Liao-ning was turned into an under-supplied and severely mismanaged backwater. In an effort to make a name for himself and prove the efficacy of his leadership in the province, Mao Yuan-hsin fabricated a series of 'new events' in Liao-ning.

    1978, Chi Hsin (research group), Teng Hsiao-ping: A Political Biography, Hong Kong: Cosmos Books, →OCLC, page 113

    HUANG Tê-kung 黃得功 (T. 滸山, 虎山), d. 1645, June 15, Ming loyalist general, was a native of Kʻai-yüan, (Liao-ning), to which place his ancestors had moved from Ho-fei, Anhwei.

    2010, Arthur W. Hummel Sr., editor, Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912), volume 1, Global Oriental, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 348

    TYC plant in China seeks expansion and relocates to Wa-Fang-Dian City in Liao-Ning Province in year 2011. The new production base covers nearly 56,000 square meters.

    [n.d., “ABOUT US”, in Tien Yuen Machinery Mfg. Co., Ltd., archived from the original on 30 Apr 2017

Origin

  1. Mandarin遼寧 /辽宁
  2. EnglishLiao-ning

From the Wade-Giles romanization of its Mandarin 遼寧 /辽宁 (Liáoníng).

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