Xiangning

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: shyängʹnǐngʹ
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ
• Hyphenation: Xiang‧ning

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, volume I, number 241, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →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. Chao (趙賀筱岳), “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.]

   • 2019 March 16, “North China landslide knocks over homes, killing 7”, in AP News‎^[5], archived from the original on 26 June 2023‎^[6]:

     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:

  Cantonese: 鄉寧 / 乡宁

  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^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 2
• “Xiangning, Hsiangning, Hsiang-ning, Siangning”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.