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南京

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Nán jīng

see 南京市[Nan2 jing1 Shi4]; Nanjing, capital of the Ming dynasty (1368–1421) and of the Republic of China (1927–1937 and 1946–1949)

Examples

我们还没安排去南京的时间。

We have not yet arranged the time to leave for Nanjing.

我出去玩都是在南京坐飞机，没去过上海。

When travelling, I always go to the airport in Nanjing, I've never been to Shanghai.

See also: 南京市

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.