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Nanking

nan·king

UK/nænˈkɪŋ/ US/nɑnˈkɪŋ/ uncommon

noun

1.

a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s

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From the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 南京, reinforced by Postal Romanization from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

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