Neijiang

Nei·jiang
N1E1I1J8I1A1N1G2

proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Nei-chiang · alternative Neikiang

  1. A prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.

    As of Saturday, 58 people were suspected to have the disease in the neighboring cities of Ziyang and Neijiang, the Sichuan health department said in a statement.

    2005 July 26, “New disease is not SARS, China says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2023, Health
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    Governor Lai left today for Neichiang, which is west of Chungking and is about midway between the city and Chengtu where General Yang establishes his headquarters and stations a large portion of his troops. With the Civil Governor and General Teng moving to Neichiang, it is certian^([sic – meaning certain]) that fighting will break out in that section of the province.

    [1925 April 25, “Szechwan's Controversy Over Salt Revenue”, in The China Weekly Review, volume XXXII, number 8, sourced from Independent Herald (Hankow), →OCLC, page 232, column 2

    Duan Fang took with him a contingent of the new army of Hubei, but they had established connections with members of the Revolutionary League at Wanxian and Neijiang, staged an uprising at Zizhou and killed Duan Fang. Following this, members of the Revolutionary League staged an uprising at Neijiang and other counties. By this time a part of the new army of Sichuan had also launched an uprising in the vicinity of Chengdu and had begun to march to Chongqing.

    1981, Yuzhang Wu, Recollections of the Revolution of 1911: A Great Democratic Revolution of China, Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 25–26

Origin

  1. Mandarin內江 /内江
  2. EnglishNeijiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 內江 /内江 (Nèijiāng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 內江 /内江
  • 內江 /内江 (noi⁶ gong¹)prefecture-level city in China
Chinese Mandarin 內江 /内江
  • 內江 /内江 (Nèijiāng)prefecture-level city in China
Hungarian Nejcsiang
  • Nejcsiangprefecture-level city in China
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APA

Neijiang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Neijiang

MLA

“Neijiang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Neijiang. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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