Tsining

English

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 濟寧／济宁 (Jǐníng).

Proper noun

Tsining

1. Dated form of Jining (a city in Shandong, China).
   • 1893 February 16, “News of the Day”, in The Bombay Gazette‎^[1], page 5:

     At Tsinan, the capital of Shantung, it fell to a depth of five inches on these two days, commencing on the evening of the 8th, and continuing the whole of the next day. Tsining, also in Shantung, reports three inches of snow on the 8th, and at Taiyuan, the capital of Shansi, there were two inches, on the 9th, the snow still falling at the time of despatching the telegram.

   • 1937, Hollington K. Tong, Chiang Kai Shek: Soldier And Statesman‎^[2], volume 1, Shanghai: The Chinese Publishing Company, page 211:

     This move compelled Sun Chuan-fang to relinquish his hold on Fenghsien and withdraw to Tsining, which he defended stubbornly against heavy and continuous attacks, but other points along the line rapidly fell before the Nationalist advance and Tsining, becoming isolated, eventually fell. The troops hurried on, mopping up the territory south of the Wen River, capturing Taian and occupying Tsinan.

   • 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic‎^[3], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 115:

     The Grand Canal, which crosses the western part of the province from north to south, appears to have been silted up and is used only north of Lintsing, where it joins the Wei Ho, and south of Tsining, where the water level of the canal is maintained by a series of lakes called Nanyang, Tushan, Chaoyang and Weishan.

   • 1973, Marjorie Rankin Steurt, Broken Bits of Old China‎^[4], New York: Thomas Nelson Incorporated, page 94:

     During the Christmas vacation of 1915 I visited Tsining, the largest city in western Shantung, the most thickly populated and poorest section of the province. In the whole city there were only one-story adobe or brick houses.

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 集寧／集宁 (Jíníng).

Proper noun

Tsining

1. Dated form of Jining (a district of Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China; former county-level city in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China).
   • 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic‎^[5], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 235:

     The southwestern part of the region is served by the line from Peking to Paotow via Tsining and Huhehot and, since 1955, by the Tsining-Ulan-Bator railroad. A continuation of the Peking-Paotow railroad is under construction to Lanchow via Yinchwan.

   • 1963, Klaus Mehnert, Peking and Moscow‎^[6], New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 259:

     Late at night we reached Tsining. At this point the Trans-Mongolian Railway branches off to the north. Although it runs for another 220 miles or so on Chinese soil as far as the frontier station of Erhlien, the track changes to the Russian gauge at Tsining.