Nankai

Nan·kai
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proper noun

A district of Tianjin, China.

UncommonScrabble 10

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A district of Tianjin, China.
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    Beginning with study and research, the Finance Bureau and the Coal and Building Materials Supply Company of Tientsin's Nan-k'ai District used the method of "chieh-p'ou ma-ch'iao" [translating 解剖麻雀] to help the coal industry's retail sales departments improve business management, strengthen marketing cooperation, and decrease coal losses and achieved success.

    榮玉--

    [1961 October 11 [1961 June 18], Ch'en Sheng-jung (7115 -- 2837) [陳--榮], Jung Yu-hsin (2837 3768 --) [榮玉--], “Tientsin's Nan-k'ai District Sales Units Improve Business Management”, in Translations from Ta Kung Pao, Peiping, number 12, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Ta Kung Pao, 18 June 1961, page 2, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 17

    In the Nankai District of Tianjin, 20 percent of 2,555 individual businesspeople were illiterate, mainly housewives, 40 percent were primary school graduates, 15 percent junior middle school graduates, and 35 percent senior middle school graduates. That district reported five or six college graduates, mainly artists who drew blueprints.

    社会主义中国的个体经济

    1986, Marcia Yudkin [尤德金], “Who Are China's Individual Businesspeople?”, in Making Good: Private Business in Socialist China [社会主义中国的个体经济], 1st edition, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63

    The report alleged that the Hong Kong-registered association lacked the right credentials to qualify as a nonprofit group. The sleuthing reporter tracked down the website of the China Urine Therapy Association and found grounds for suspicion there as well. “After visiting the physical address for the website, it was found to be in an old residential neighborhood of Nankai District in Tianjin,” a port city near Beijing, the report said. “There was an old man inside, and he had nothing to do with urine therapy.”

    2014 June 27, Chris Buckley, “People’s Daily Takes Firm Stance Against Urine Consumption”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2022, Sinosphere

Origin

  1. Mandarin南開 /南开
  2. EnglishNankai

From Mandarin 南開 /南开 (Nánkāi).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 南開 /南开
  • 南開 /南开district
Chinese Mandarin 南開 /南开
  • 南開 /南开 (Nánkāi)district

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