Liaoning

Liao·ning
L1I1A1O1N1I1N1G2

proper noun

A province in northeastern China. Capital: Shenyang.

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FengtienFengtianLiaoxi & LiaodongLiaoyang
Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

proper noun

alternative dated Liao-ning · alternative dated Liao Ning

  1. A province in northeastern China. Capital: Shenyang.

    Name of Fengtien province changed to Liaoning.

    1929 March 9 [1929 February 27], “From the Chinese Press”, in The China Weekly Review, volume XLVIII, number 2, →OCLC, page 79, column 1
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    The course of the Yalu river traverses a track of country ranging from 124 20' to 128 40' E. Long. and from 39 50' to 42 15, N. Lat., the course of its main stream affording a boundary line on the south-western side of Changpai Mountain (長白山), dividing the southern parts of Liaoning Province from the Korean provinces Kankyo Nando (咸鏡南道) and Hsian Hokudo (平安北道).

    1931, Wu Lien-teh, editor, Manchurian Plague Prevention Service Reports 1929-1930, volume VII, pages 208–209

    Mukden, Liaoning, Manchuria [consular district] All of the Province of Liaoning (Fengtien) except the leased territory of Kwantung; and all that part of the Province of Kirin lying to the south of the parallel of 44° north latitude, including the following places in Kirin which are open to trade: Changchun (Kwanchengtze), Hunchun, Kirin, Lungchingtsun, Towtaokow, Wangching (Paitsaokow), and Yenki (Chützuchieh).

    1933, Register of the Department of State, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 64

    At Lin-hsi in Jehol, Sha-kang in Hsin-min Hsien, Liaoning, and Ang-ang-hsi in Heilungchiang, cultural deposits were found in a black earth layer which lies beneath a yellowish, sandy layer in a black earth layer, making the transition from the semiarid loess stage of teh terminal Pleistocene to the semiarid condition of the present day, probably represents an ancient forest cover.

    1971, Alan P. L. Liu, Communications and National Integration in Communist China, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 32

    By the 1960s Tientsin was the leading chemical manufacturing centre of China, and had become the third ranking industrial region, behind only Shanghai and the central Liaoning province region of southern Manchuria.

    1972, “TIENTSIN (T'IEN-CHING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1140, columns 1, 2

    Indications that the Maoists are tightening their grip on farmers came in a May 7 People's Daily report from a commune at Changwu of Liaoning province.

    1976 May 30, L. Chen, “Hua Kuo-feng's grip on farmers”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 21, Taipei, page 3

    Synonyms: Fengtien, Fengtian, Liaoxi & Liaodong, Liaoyang

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA province in northeastern China. Capital: Shenyang.

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FengtienFengtianLiaoxi & LiaodongLiaoyang
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Origin

  1. Mandarin遼寧 /辽宁
  2. EnglishLiaoning

c. 1929 From Wade–Giles romanization and/or Postal Romanization, from Mandarin 遼寧 /辽宁 (Liáoníng, literally “Tranquil Liao”); later reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin, from the name of the main river of the area. The name was restored to the area in 1954 upon the merging of the Liaoxi (“West Liao”) and Liaodong (“East Liao”) provinces.

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Translations

Arabic لْيَاوْنِينْغ
  • لْيَاوْنِينْغ (lyawninḡ)province of China
Chinese Cantonese 遼寧 /辽宁
  • 遼寧 /辽宁 (liu⁴ ning⁴)province of China
Chinese Mandarin 遼寧 /辽宁
  • 遼寧 /辽宁 (Liáoníng)province of China
Czech Liao-ning
  • Liao-ningprovince of China
Esperanto Ljaŭningo
  • Ljaŭningoprovince of China
Hindi लियाओनिंग
  • लियाओनिंग (liyāoniṅg)province of China
Hungarian Liaoning
  • Liaoningprovince of China
Indonesian Liaoning
  • Liaoningprovince of China
Japanese 遼寧
  • 遼寧 (Ryōnei)province of China
Korean 랴오닝, 료녕
  • 랴오닝 (Ryaoning)province of China
  • 료녕 (Ryonyeong)province of China
  • 요녕 (Yonyeong)province of China
Latvian Liaonina
  • Liaoninaprovince of China
Lithuanian Liaoningas
  • Liaoningasprovince of China
Polish Liaoning
  • Liaoningprovince of China
Russian Ляони́н
  • Ляони́н (Ljaonín)province of China
Ukrainian Ляоні́н
  • Ляоні́н (Ljaonín)province of China
Vietnamese Liêu Ninh
  • Liêu Ninhprovince of China
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