Anning

See also: ānníng

English

Alternative forms

• An-ning (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 安寧／安宁 (Ānníng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑːnˈnɪŋ/

Proper noun

Anning

1. A county-level city in Kunming, Yunnan, China.
   • [1947, Joseph F. Rock, “Introduction”, in The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of Southwest China‎^[1], volume 1, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 15:

     From Pi-chi Kuan to An-ning chou 安甯州 (now An-ning hsien) is 50 li. An-ning is a walled city lying in a valley at an altitude of 6,000 feet. In ancient days it was the T’ang-lang-ch’uan 螳螂川 (Mantis stream) of the Tien Kingdom. A small trail here branches off to the town of Wu-ting 武定, three stages to the north of K’un-ming and a distance of 210 li from An-ning. (A motorroad has now been built.)]

   • 2014, Yangtze River Delta Earth First!, “Environmental Group Events in Today's China”, in Alexander Reid Ross, editor, Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab‎^[2], AK Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page [3]:

     CNPC’s refinery comprises one of the auxiliary infrastructures of Sino-Burma crude oil pipelines, which just entered the Industrial Park of Anning City, Yunnan Province in 2013. The pipeline stands at the windward of the “City of Eternal Spring” and upstream side of the “City of Water Shortage,” Kunming.

   • 2016 October 10, Aizhu Chen, Aung Hla Tun, “New China refinery faces delay as Myanmar seeks extra oil tax: sources”, in Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 10 October 2018, Commodities‎^[5]:

     PetroChina has also been building a 260,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery at Anning in Yunnan province to process the oil, which so far can only be stored in tanks.

2. A river in Sichuan, China.
   • 1913, Elizabeth Kendall, “The Chien-ch'ang”, in A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia‎^[6], Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 71:

     THE second day after leaving Hui-li-chou we entered the valley of the Anning Ho, a grey, fast-flowing stream whose course runs parallel with the meridian like all the others of that interesting group of rivers between Assam and eastern Szechuan, the Irrawaddy, the Sal ween, the Mekong, the Yangtse, the Yalung. The Anning, the smallest of these, lies enclosed in a wilderness of tangled ranges, and its valley forms the shortest trade route between Szechuan and the Indo-Chinese peninsula.

Synonyms

• Nganning (dated)

Translations

river

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安寧／安宁 (zh) (Ānníng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Anning”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143, column 3

Anagrams

• Ning'an, ninang, gannin, Ginnan