Anking

English

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 安慶／安庆 (Ānqìng), from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/.

Pronunciation

• enPR: änʹkǐngʹ

Proper noun

Anking

1. Dated form of Anqing.
   • 1913, Arthur R. Gray, Arthur M. Sherman, The Story of the Church in China‎^[3], New York: The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, page 220:

     Adjoining the province of Kiangsu is the province of Anhui and in two of its river cities, Wuhu and Anking, we have centers of work.

   • 1922, Herold Speakman, Beyond Shanghai‎^[4], The Abingdon Press, page 97:

     Plainly it was not the custom for a foreigner to travel down the Yangtze on a small boat, for no sooner was I nicely settled on the deck of a tug about to leave for Anking, ninety miles down the river, than a boatload of Chinese river police pulled alongside and requested to see my passport.

   • 1927, William James Hail, Tsêng Kuo Fan And The Taiping Rebellion: With a Short Sketch of His Later Career‎^[5], Yale University Press, →OCLC, page 188:

     But Anhui as a whole was still far from conquered ; the Taipings remained in Anking and only small detachments of loyal troops were available for necessary attacks on a few specific localities.

   • 1973, Yu-wen Jen, The Taiping Revolutionary Movement‎^[6], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 214–215:

     By autumn 1856, practically all the cities in North Anhwei had been lost to the Imperialists but T’ung-ch’eng, north of Anking.

Further reading

• “Anking”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Anking”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Anking”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Anking” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• naking