Yongning

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jɔŋ.nɪŋ/

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永寧永宁.

Proper noun

Yongning

  1. A county of Yinchuan, Ningxia, China.
    • 1991, Gladney, Dru C., Muslim Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119:
      Yongning county is only 12.9 percent Hui, a relatively small minority in contrast to neighboring Lingwu county in the southeast, which is 47 percent Hui, and southern Jingyuan county, which is 97 percent Hui (the highest concentration of Hui in one county in China, see Map 2).
    • 1993 August, Wang, Miao; Shi Bao Xiu, Tu Nai Hsien, editor, From the Pamirs to Beijing: Tracing Marco Polo's Northern Route, Hong Kong: HK China Tourism Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 82, column 2:
      The next day we went to visit a village named Najiahu in Yongning County, which is located to the south of Yinchuan. The inhabitants here are nearly all Muslims.
    • 2019 January 20, Wen, Philip, “China reports African swine fever outbreak in Ningxia region”, in John Stonestreet, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 21 January 2019, Health News:
      China’s agriculture ministry on Sunday reported a new African swine fever outbreak in the northwestern region of Ningxia.
      The outbreak occurred on a farm with 57 live pigs in Yongning county, infecting pigs and killing 13, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yongning.
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Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 邕寧邕宁 (Yōngníng).

Proper noun

Yongning

  1. A county of Nanning, Guangxi, China.
    • 2004, “Eco-san Examples”, in Ecological Sanitation, Second edition, Stockholm Environment Institute, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 26:
      Following the success of the Dalu village pilot project the Yongning county party committee and government in Guangxi province decided to introduce eco-toilets in a comprehensive village environmental improvement programme.
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