Zhongning

Zhong·ning
Z10H4O1N1G2N1I1N1G2
/d͡ʒɔŋ.nɪŋ/

proper noun

A county of Zhongwei, Ningxia autonomous region, China.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Zhongwei, Ningxia autonomous region, China.

    On 17 June Yinchuan claims that wheat rust has been found in a production brigade of Chungning County due to laxness in controlling this disease during the past several days when the brigade was busy transplanting rice.

    [1965 July 14, “Reports on Insect Pests and Plant Disease”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 134, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, Communist China Regional Affairs, page DDD 1
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    The distribution of the mean annual precipitation in the Yellow River Basin generally decreases from southeast to northwest (Fig 1). It is heaviest in the mountain areas of T’ai Shan and I Shan in Shantung Province, and lightest along the river from Teng-k’ou to Chung-ning above the Ordos.

    地理學報

    [1960 April 27 [1956 November], Yang Chien-ch'u, Hsu Shu-ying, “The Fluvial Regime and Droughts of the Yellow River Basin”, in Floods, Precipitation, and Drought in the Yellow River Basin, U. S. Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Ti-li Hsueh-pao (Acta Geographica Sinica), Volume 22, No 4, pages 339-351 [地理學報], translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 27

    In Hui restaurants in towns such as Wuchung and Chungning, restaurant workers wearing the white caps of the Hui nationality serve customers. Most government institutions, factories and schools in different parts of the autonomous region have set up dining rooms for the Huis, where their special foods are served.

    [1978 November [1978 October 16], “Religious Life Never Interfered With”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16

    A resident was given a fright by their housekeeper who was standing outside the 9th floor of a building without safety measures in northwestern China. Video shot in Zhongning County in Ningxia Province on November 29 shows a housekeeper standing outside a flat on the 9th floor to clean the windows.

    2021 November 29, “Housekeeper gives Chinese resident a fright after standing outside 9th floor window without safety measures”, in Yahoo! Philippines, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2022

    The teenager called police in Zhongning county, Ningxia region during the wedding on November 24 to say she was being forced into the illegal marriage against her will, according to a post by the local Justice Bureau Monday.

    2021 December 10, Cheryl Ho, “Police in China send girl, 14, back to parents who allegedly tried to sell her into marriage for $40,000”, in CNN, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2021

Origin

  1. Mandarin中寧 /中宁
  2. EnglishZhongning

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中寧 /中宁 (Zhōngníng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 中寧 /中宁
  • 中寧 /中宁county
Chinese Mandarin 中寧 /中宁
  • 中寧 /中宁 (Zhōngníng)county
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