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Nanjing
[ nahn-jing ]
noun
- a port in and the capital of Jiangsu province, in eastern China, on the Chang Jiang: a former capital of China.
Nanjing
/ 藞n忙n藞t蕛瑟艐; 藞n忙n藞k瑟艐; 藞n忙n藞d蕭瑟艐 /
noun
- a port in E central China, capital of Jiangsu province, on the Yangtze River: capital of the Chinese empire and a literary centre from the 14th to 17th centuries; capital of Nationalist China (1928鈥37); site of a massacre of about 300聽000 civilians by the invading Japanese army in 1937; university (1928). Pop: 2聽806聽000 (2005 est)
Nanjing
- City in eastern China on the Yangtze River , northeast of Shanghai ; an industrial and transportation center.
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Example Sentences
Yukun Tao travelled across nine countries from his home city of Nanjing, near Shanghai in China, to Durham by car last September.
But she held her nerve following a mid-race shove from Holmes before measuring her final effort to perfection to claim her first international title in Nanjing, China.
Gold in Glasgow 12 months ago represented Caudery's first global title, but the 25-year-old fell agonisingly short of the podium in Nanjing, China.
It saw him cross the line one hundredth of a second ahead of Australian Lachlan Kennedy, who was initially shown as the winner on the big screen in Nanjing, China.
Nanjing marks her first major test in a year leading to the World Championships in Tokyo in September.
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