Nan-ningとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: nänʹnǐngʹ

固有名詞

Nan-ning

1. Alternative form of Nanning
   • 1965, James Cameron, “On the Way”, in Here is Your Enemy‎, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 16–17:

     My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam. My immigration official was suitably inscrutable; he took the thing as no great drama (which it certainly was to me), rather did he appear to regard the trip as a quaint eccentricity.

   • 2005, William T. Vollmann, “They Came Out Like Ants!”, in Dave Eggers, editor, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005‎ (Literature), Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 298:

     One hot summer day in the Chinese city of Nan-ning, I wandered through a park of lotus leaves and exotic flowers to a pagoda where ancient women sat, drowsily, happily playing mahjongg amidst the scent of flowers, and that excellent sound of clicking tiles enchanted me; I was far from home, but that long slow summer afternoon with the mah-jongg sounds brought me back to my own continent and specifically to Mexicali, whose summer tranquillity never ends.

   • 2011, Lisa See, Dreams of Joy‎, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 135:

     In January, Chairman Mao goes to the city of Nan-ning to give a speech launching what he calls the Great Leap Forward.

別の表記

• Nan-ning (Wade–Giles)

語源

From the Mandarin for 南寧／南宁 (Nánníng).

発音

• enPR: nänʹnǐngʹ
• ハイフネーション: Nan‧ning

固有名詞

Nanning

1. A prefecture-level city, the capital of the Guangxi autonomous region, China.
   • 1733, Eusebius Renaudot, transl., Ancient Accounts of India and China‎, London, →OCLC, page 61:

     Our Authors ſay there are no Elephants in China, which muſt be underſtood of the Provinces they knew, where, in truth, there are none. Father Martini writes, that they begin to be met with at Nanning, in the Province of Quangli, where the Inhabitants uſe them for War and for Carriage. Some there are alſo in the Province of Junnan ; nor is it a wonder that theſe Creatures, who ſo ſwarm in the Indies, and in Tungkin or Tonquin, ſhould ſtraggle hither.

   • 1925, Harry A. Franck, Roving Through Southern China‎, The Century Company, page 354:

     The French were once so sure of getting a railway concession from their Langson branch into Lungchow that they built a big stone station—now the French consulate—and a stone slide not unlike the steeper levees along the Mississippi, down which French goods were to be slid into the boats that were to take them down the river to Nanning.

   • 1942, Lin Yutang, editor, The Wisdom of China and India‎, Random House, →OCLC, page 941:

     The story was told him by an old servant of his family who was from Yungchow [modern Nanning] in Kwangsi, and who came from the cave people [aborigines] of that district.[...]There are well-known Siamese versions of the Cinderella story, and Nanning is very close to Indo-China.

   • 1975 April 13, “Expose Peiping involvement in Indo-China”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XVI, number 14, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:

     Since an earlier Maoist military mission's visit to Hanoi in October 1974, the Chinese Communists have been providing massive military supplies for North Vietnamese. A so-called "Headquarters of the Chinese People's Support for Vietnam," headed by Wei Kuo-ching, was also established in Nanning in southern Kwangsi Province.[...]
     A training center has been operating in suburban Nanning to provide guerrilla and sabotage training for 500 persons at a time.

   • 2022 June 25, Paul Mozur, Muyi Xiao, John Liu, “‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 June 2022‎:

     In 2020 in the city of Nanning, the police bought software that could look for “more than three key people checking into the same or nearby hotels” and “a drug user calling a new out-of-town number frequently,” according to a bidding document.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nanning.

同意語

• Yungning

派生した語

• Translingual: Nanningosaurus

Further reading

• “Nanning”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Nanning, Nan-ning at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Nanning, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Nanning”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Nanning”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Nanning” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Nanning”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2116, column 3