Sining

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  1. 1
    Dated form of Xining. alt-of, dated

    "Then there is the newly organised police force, and the modernising of the troops. For Sining is not only a city of temples and yamens, but of barracks. Here are quartered two hundred horse and two thousand foot soldiers."

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"Then there is the newly organised police force, and the modernising of the troops. For Sining is not only a city of temples and yamens, but of barracks. Here are quartered two hundred horse and two thousand foot soldiers."

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 西寧／西宁 (Xīníng).

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