An-ch'ing

See also: an·ching and An-ch‘ing

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 安慶／安庆 (Ānqìng), Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-chʻing⁴.

Proper noun

An-ch'ing

1. Alternative form of Anqing
   • 1887, W. P. Groeneveldt, “Notes on the Malay Archipelago and Malacca”, in Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago‎^[2], volume I, London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 165:

     " In the year 1460 the king Tu-ma-pan (Tumapel?)† sent envoys to carry tribute. When these envoys went back, and had arrived at An-ch’ing,‡ they got drunk and had a fight with foreign priests who came to bring tribute, and of whom six were killed.

     ‡ 安慶府, in the province of An-hwui.

   • 1910, J. O. P. Bland, E. Backhouse, China Under the Empress Dowager‎^[3], Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 37:

     But the virile and untiring energies of Yehonala, ably supported by Jung Lu and other faithful followers, soon put a new complexion on affairs, and the situation was further modified in her favour by the success of her nominee, the Commander-in-Chief, T'seng Kuo-fan, in capturing the city of An-ch’ing (in Anhui) from the rebels, a victory that was regarded as of good augury to her cause.

   • 1973, Gilbert Rozman, “Regional Variations in Cities”, in Urban Networks in Ch’ing China and Tokugawa Japan‎^[4], Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:

     In contrast, Chiu-chiang served primarily as an accumulation point for Kiangsi rice and as a stop for commercial transport on the Yangtze river between Wuhan and An-ch’ing.

   • 1996, Jacques Gernet, “Political Developments in the First Half of the Twentieth Century”, in A History of Chinese Civilization‎^[5], 2nd edition, Cambridge History Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 629:

     The men installed in the central provinces by Yüan Shih-k’ai when order was restored—Feng Kuo-chang at Nanking, Tuan Ch’i-jui at An-ch’ing (in Anhwei), Li Chun at Nan-ch’ang—were not slow to demonstrate in turn their own desire to be independent of their protector.

   • 1998, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia: Knowledge in Depth‎^[6], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 173:

     Towns of lesser importance include An-ch'ing, the former provincial capital; Ma-an-shan; and Ta-t'ung.

   • 2003, Ulrich Straus, “A Few Very Special POWs”, in The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II‎^[7], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 160:

     Okino was still recuperating from the amputation of a leg when he received a letter from the senior Japanese officer in An-ch’ing (now Anqing), a city on the Yangtze River and the site of the nearest major Japanese base.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:An-ch'ing.

Further reading

• An-ch'ing at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “An-ch’ing”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “An-ch'ing” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Anking or An-ch’ing”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 74, column 3

Anagrams

• changin', hancing