Nei Menggu

proper noun

Synonym of Inner Mongolia: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Nei-meng-ku

  1. Synonym of Inner Mongolia: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

    Nei Menggu, or Inner Mongolia, is one of five autonomous regions of the People's Republic of China.

    1994, Caroline Alexander, The Way to Xanadu, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10
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    July 27 So many people with mobile phones. The coverage seems seamless along this rail line in Nei Menggu (Inner Mongolia). How good the coverage is up in the mountains or out in the desert, I don’t know. It seems as if nearly every other person in this hard sleeper has one. There’s no status any more, it’s just a utility.

    漫游中国

    2007 [2002 July 27], Fred Richardson, Getting Around in China: Notes from an American Traveler [漫游中国], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 272

    Synonyms: Inner Mongolia

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounSynonym of Inner Mongolia: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

Origin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 內蒙古/内蒙古 (Nèi Měnggǔ).

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