Xiangning

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄉寧／乡宁.

Proper noun

Xiangning

1. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
   • [1974 December 13 [1974 November 23], “Shansi Province Presses Farmland Capital Construction”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[1], volume I, number 241, →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 3‎^[2]:

     3. The masses are fully determined and full of vigor. For instance, 87 percent of Hsiangning County's labor force is engaged in farmland capital construction.]

   • [1978 July 21, People's Republic of China Scientific Abstracts‎^[3], number 194, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 32:

     This newly discovered oil producing tree is distributed in natural secondary forests in Hsiang-ning County of the southern end of Lu-liang-shan Mountains and I-ch'eng County of the northern part of Chung-t'iao-shan Mountains in Shansi Province.]

   • [2000, Sheau-yueh J. (趙賀筱岳) Chao, “Genealogy of Chinese Surnames”, in 尋根溯源中國人的姓氏 [In Search of Your Asian Roots: Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames]‎^[4], Clearfield Company, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 55:

     The founder of the sunrame^{[sic – meaning surname]} E was the Marquise of E (E hou 鄂侯) originally from the State of Chin 晉. E was later adopted as a common surname by his descendants and the family settled in Hsiang-ning hsien 鄉寧縣, Shan-hsi 山西 province.]

   • 2010 March 28, Benjamin Kang Lim, “Flood in new China coal mine traps 123 miners”, in Tim Pearce, editor, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 30 January 2016, World News‎^[6]:

     The mine, sitting astride Xiangning county and Hejin city, covers about 180 sq km, Xinhua said, adding that the mining zone holds more than 2.3 billion tons of coal reserves, including nearly 1.04 billion tons of proven reserves.

   • 2019 March 16, “North China landslide knocks over homes, killing 7”, in AP News‎^[7], archived from the original on 2023-06-26‎^[8]:

     The landslide hit Xiangning county in Shanxi province early Friday evening, provincial authorities said. Two residential buildings, home to a total of 14 households, and a public bathhouse collapsed under the weight of the falling earth.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鄉寧／乡宁 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiangning”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 2
• Xiangning, Hsiangning, Hsiang-ning, Siangning at Google Ngram Viewer