Nanching

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(Chin. nän′jing′)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
Nan•ching  (Chin. nän′jing′),USA pronunciation n. Wade-Giles.
  1. Place NamesNanjing.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
Nan•jing  (nän′jing′),USA pronunciation n. [Pinyin.]
  1. Place Namesa port in and the capital of Jiangsu province, in E China, on the Chang Jiang: a former capital of China. 1,750,000.
Also, Nanching, Nanking. 
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Nan-ching / ˈnænˈtʃɪŋ/
  1. a variant spelling of Nanjing
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Nanjing / ˈnænˈdʒɪŋ/, Nanking / ˈnænˈkɪŋ/, Nan-ching / ˈnænˈtʃɪŋ/
  1. a port in E central China, capital of Jiangsu province, on the Yangtze River: capital of the Chinese empire and a literary centre from the 14th to 17th centuries; capital of Nationalist China (1928–37); site of a massacre of about 300 000 civilians by the invading Japanese army in 1937; university (1928). Pop: 2 806 000 (2005 est)
'Nanching' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Nanjing

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