Ningling

English

Alternative forms

• Ning-ling (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 寧陵 / 宁陵.

Pronunciation

• enPR: nǐngʹlǐngʹ

Proper noun

Ningling

1. A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
   • 1960, Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts‎^[2], numbers 166-170, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 9:

     Honan Province -- Kaifeng, Shangchiu, and Ningling counties of Kaifeng Special District are abolished. The administrative area of[...] the former Ningling county is transferred to Chu (7168) County.

   • 2012, Hsiao-Hung Pai, “Dust and Heat: Black Mines in the Yellow River Region”, in Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants‎^[3], Verso Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 101:

     In 2006, after his son died, Mr Zhou attempted to sue the hospital, but the court wouldn’t take up his case. In Ningling county, in Henan, over 100 people were recently found to have been infected via blood transfusion.

   • 2018 July 24, “Chinese pharmaceutical firm embroiled in vaccine scandal involved in several bribery cases, records show”, in The Straits Times‎^[4], archived from the original on 24 July 2018:

     For example, a court in Ningling county, Henan province, ruled in September that a man surnamed Song, who worked for a disease prevention and control centre in Suixian county, had accepted bribes of more than 1 million yuan (S$200,000) from several vaccine makers or agencies since July 2011, including 124,680 yuan from Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ningling.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 寧陵 / 宁陵

  Mandarin: 寧陵 / 宁陵 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Ningling, Ning-ling at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Ningling”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2190, column 1