Xianning

English

Alternative forms

• Sienning
• Hsien-ning, Hsienning (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 咸寧 / 咸甯 / 咸宁 (Xiánníng).

Proper noun

Xianning

1. A prefecture-level city in Hubei, China.
   • [1978 April, “A Series of Chaos and Uprisings”, in China's Struggle with Red Peril‎^[1], World Anti-Communist League, China Chapter, →OCLC, pages 96–97:

     In Hupeh province, the peasants of Tungcheng (in southern Hupeh) began to revolt at the end of August and the uprising spread to Tungshan and Chungyang counties. Later, these peasants joined forces with the peasants of Puchi and Hsienning and bribed with huge amounts of money the bandits under Chang Chao-feng’s command to cut off, on September 9, the Wuchang-Changsha Railway for more than 10 days and attack Hsienning city.]

   • [1989, H. P. Willmott, “A New World and a New War”, in The Great Crusade: A New Complete History of the Second World War‎^[2], The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 30–31:

     With the 6th Infantry Division remaining north of the river, the 11th Army deployed two of its four infantry divisions to guard the open flank to the south while it advanced on a double front, securing Wuchang and Hanyang on 26 October and Sienning on 31 October.]

   • 2020 March 24, Brenda Goh, “Locked-down no longer, China's Hubei begins return to normal”, in Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 28 April 2022, World News‎^[4]:

     “I booked my ticket this morning after hearing the news,” said Chen Ting, who was accompanied by her three-year-old son among about 40 people getting off a train in Hubei’s Xianning city.
     The 28-year-old had travelled from Qingyuan city in the southern province of Guangdong, where she runs a wholesale business.

Translations

prefecture-level city in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 咸寧 (Xiánníng), 咸甯 (Xiánníng), 咸宁 (Xiánníng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xianning”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 3
• Xianning, Hsien-ning, Hsienning, Sienning at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.