Chi-ning

See also: chining

English

Map including CHI-NING (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 濟寧／济宁 (Jǐníng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chi³-ning².

Proper noun

Chi-ning

1. Alternative form of Jining
   • 1916, Catalogue of Ancient Chinese Paintings Collected by Edgar Pierce Allen of Tientsin, China‎^[1], New York City, →OCLC, page [2]:

     Chiao Pʻing-chên was a native of Chi-ning in Shantung and he had been employed in the Imperial Board of Astronomy.

   • [1965, Harmon Tupper, To the Great Ocean‎^[3], Little, Brown & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 432–433:

     The Trans-Mongolian connects at Chining with a Chinese railway that has been built, at the date of this writing, in a westerly direction as far as Wulumuchi (or Urumchi), capital of the Chinese province of Sinkiang.]

   • 1970, Ramon H. Myers, The Chinese Peasant Economy Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890-1949‎^[4], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:

     The first condition to establish is that the size of farm and distribution of the land were two major factors determining which households retained labor for farm work or dispatched labor from the village. For examples, Shih chai hai village in Chi-ning county of Shantung was surveyed in 1941.

   • 2011, Ralph D. Sawyer, “The Last Reigns”, in Ancient Chinese Warfare‎^[5], Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 193:

     Late Shang artifacts have similarly been recovered in Shandong at Chi-ning, Ho-che, Lin-hsi, and other locations in a pattern of diminishing eastward prevalence.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chi-ning.

Translations

Jining — see Jining

Anagrams

• inching, niching