Meaning of Tsining | Babel Free
Definitions
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Dated form of Jining: a city in Shandong, China. alt-of, dated
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Dated form of Jining: a district and former county-level city of Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China. alt-of, dated
Examples
“At Tsinan, the capital of Shantung, it fell to a depth of five inches on these two days, commencing on the evening of the 8th, and continuing the whole of the next day. Tsining, also in Shantung, reports three inches of snow on the 8th, and at Taiyuan, the capital of Shansi, there were two inches, on the 9th, the snow still falling at the time of despatching the telegram.”
“This move compelled Sun Chuan-fang to relinquish his hold on Fenghsien and withdraw to Tsining, which he defended stubbornly against heavy and continuous attacks, but other points along the line rapidly fell before the Nationalist advance and Tsining, becoming isolated, eventually fell. The troops hurried on, mopping up the territory south of the Wen River, capturing Taian and occupying Tsinan.”
“The Grand Canal, which crosses the western part of the province from north to south, appears to have been silted up and is used only north of Lintsing, where it joins the Wei Ho, and south of Tsining, where the water level of the canal is maintained by a series of lakes called Nanyang, Tushan, Chaoyang and Weishan.”
“During the Christmas vacation of 1915 I visited Tsining, the largest city in western Shantung, the most thickly populated and poorest section of the province. In the whole city there were only one-story adobe or brick houses.”
“The southwestern part of the region is served by the line from Peking to Paotow via Tsining and Huhehot and, since 1955, by the Tsining-Ulan-Bator railroad. A continuation of the Peking-Paotow railroad is under construction to Lanchow via Yinchwan.”
“Late at night we reached Tsining. At this point the Trans-Mongolian Railway branches off to the north. Although it runs for another 220 miles or so on Chinese soil as far as the frontier station of Erhlien, the track changes to the Russian gauge at Tsining.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.