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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 西寧／西宁 (Xīníng).
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Sining
- Dated form of Xining.
1909, William Edgar Geil, The Great Wall of China, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, W., page 286:Then there is the newly organised police force, and the modernising of the troops. For Sining is not only a city of temples and yamens, but of barracks. Here are quartered two hundred horse and two thousand foot soldiers.
1937, Ella K. Maillart, Forbidden Journey: From Peking to Kashmir, William Heinemann Ltd, page 53:Peter had the bright idea of at once looking up C. C. Ku, to whom we had an introduction from his brother, a student in Peking. Ku spoke fluent English, having studied at Cornell University. He had been sent from Nanking to Sining with the rank of lieutenant-general, and succeeded in making a good impression on “The Young General,” Ma Bu-fang.
1942, Violet Cressy-Marcks, “GREAT NORTH-WEST”, in Journey Into China, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., →OCLC, page 280:We had planned to go in two days, though no official permission had yet arrived for us to leave Lanchow. We had done little about it, except to inform a Foreign Office official and the Governor that we wished to go further west. Frank wanted to see farms between here and Sining, and I wanted to go to Koko Nor Lake.
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