Ningde

Ning·de
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proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Fujian, China.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Ning-te · alternative Ningteh

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

    For instance, 116 of the 286 small projects built in Ningteh, Fukien, either collapsed or became useless by 1963.

    [1970, Kang Chao, “Notes”, in Agricultural Production in Communist China, 1949-1965, Madison; Milwaukee; London: The University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 333
    2 more examples

    These 40,000 are a very interesting people who say they once lived in Kwangtung, but who came up to Chekiang through the high hill tops of Fukien where, in Ningteh county in north-eastern Fukien, 134,000 of them now form the largest group in any one place.

    [1976, Rewi Alley, “A Visit to Pottery Sites and She People”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XV, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23, column 1

    The Ningde, Fujian-based company is ramping up production and its sourcing of minerals to meet growing demand for EVs. Consulting firm Wood Mackenzie has said CATL is on track to more than triple its cell manufacturing capacity by 2025.

    2022 May 6, Christoph Steitz, Ben Klayman, “EXCLUSIVE CATL planning EV battery production in United States, vetting sites-sources”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2021, Technology

Origin

  1. Mandarin寧德 /宁德
  2. EnglishNingde

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寧德 /宁德 (Níngdé).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 寧德 /宁德
  • 寧德 /宁德 (ning⁴ dak¹)prefecture-level city in Fujian
Chinese Mandarin 寧德 /宁德
  • 寧德 /宁德 (Níngdé)prefecture-level city in Fujian

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Chicago

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