Nanjing
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- proper noun
- /nænˈdʒɪŋ/
- Participants were 247 students from several high schools in Nanjing, a metropolitan city in the eastern province of Kiangsu in China.
- Nanjing massacre
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing, China
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Watch on YouTubeIt's on the high speed rail between Shanghai and Nanjing.
- It's on the high speed rail between Shanghai and Nanjing.
- A few days after the Amethyst incident, communist troops start their final advance on Nanjing.
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Park Hotel sits on Nanjing East Road by People's Square.
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Nanjing University has embarked on a joint program with Johns Hopkins University: the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies.
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Another highlight was the Nanjing Foreign Language School, a junior and senior high school.
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Later on in the day, we visited the Nanjing Art Primary School known as the Red Flower School.
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Two samples of Chinese university students, one from Beijing and the other from Nanjing, participated in the study.
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She got her undergraduate degree from Nanjing University.
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The officials sent to China traveled to Nanjing and, later, to Beijing after the relocation of the capital.
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Liu Liu is an associate professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Nanjing University.
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Arriving in Nanjing on 7.15, they departed on 7.22 and returned to Beijing on 8.15.
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The city witnessed the horrors of modern warfare in the carnage of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937.
Synonyms
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A city in eastern China by the Yangtze River that was once the capital and where a 1937 massacre happened
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Etymology
Nanjing comes from two Chinese parts: nan meaning 'south' and jing meaning 'capital'. So Nanjing literally means 'Southern Capital', which explains why it was once a capital and why the name shows the city's importance.