muling

Mu·ling
M3U1L1I1N1G2

proper noun

A county-level city of Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China, formerly a county.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

muling1

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of mule

Muling2

proper noun
  1. A county-level city of Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China, formerly a county.

    KMJP 7/3/72 carries a case from Mu-ling hsien, Heilungkiang, where peasants invited UYs to New Year’s feasts.

    [1977, Thomas P. Bernstein, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 321
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    Peasants and cadres of the (Szuping) production brigade of the (Pamientung) commune in Muling County started to sow wheat on 11 March with the revolutionary spirit of seizing the day and seizing the hour.

    1970 March 19 [1970 March 16], “Party Branch Activities”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 54, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Harbin Heilungkiang Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northeast Region, page G 2

    Love could not be won by the subjective desire and zeal of one side alone. Ri had expelled the girl who had broken his heart to Muling County and had had a love affair with another woman before coming to Wangqing.

    2008 [1935], Kim Il Sung, “With the Conviction of Independence”, in Kim Il Sung Works, volume 48, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 116

    1902: During the Russo-Japanese war, soldiers reported sightings [of] a winged cave-dwelling dragon, 40 mi. from Muling, in Heilongjiang province.

    2009, Michael Newton, Hidden Animals: A Field Guide to Batsquatch, Chupacabra, and Other Elusive Creatures, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 153

    A man in Muling, a city administered by Mudanjiang, has been arrested on suspicion of killing his father-in-law, who died after drinking wine containing poison,[…]

    2014 December 29, “Evidence of 'missing link' in domestication of cats found in China”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020, China Insider

Origin

  1. Mandarin穆稜 /穆棱
  2. EnglishMuling

From Mandarin 穆稜 /穆棱 (Mùlíng).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 穆稜 /穆棱
  • 穆稜 /穆棱 (Mùlíng)county-level city

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