Nanking
pronunciation
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- Noun:
- a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s
Word Origin
- Nanking
- city in China, literally "southern capital," from nan "south" + jing "capital."
Example
- 1. Our distinguished guests will leave for Nanking and Shanghai Tomorrow , and I wish you all a pleasant journey .
- 2. Great Wall of Nanking and Purple Mountain , China .
- 3. We start in Shanghai and then move to Nanking .
- 4. The paleomagnetic study on some Cainozoic basalt groups in vicinity of Nanking and the preliminary determination of its geological ages
- 5. From Nanking , the Communists wheeled on Shanghai , long the base of Western imperialism in the Far East .