Daning
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Ta-ning
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大寧／大宁.
Proper noun
Daning
- A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
- 2018, Wang, Jinping, “Clergy, Irrigation Associations, and the Rural Socioeconomic Order”, in In the Wake of the Mongols, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 166:
- Recently published inscriptions about earthquakes in Shanxi provide the statistical information, which proves reliable when we compare the different records. […] An inscription from Daning county describes a similar toll: 175,800 people in Pingyang circuit died.
- 2022 April 20, “Shanxi clarifies crop growth task for 2022”, in China Daily, archived from the original on 10 June 2022:
- A worker drives a tractor for tillage in Daning county, Shanxi province.
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Translations
county
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Daning”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 963, column 2
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