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Ningbo en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • nĭng′bŭ′
  • /nɪŋˈbəʊ/

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 寧波/宁波 (Níngbō), literally "Peaceful Waves".

Meanings

  1. A port city, prefecture-level city, and subprovincial city in eastern Zhejiang, China.
    • Congestion off China's top two container ports Shanghai and Ningbo is worsening following the shutdown of a container terminal in Ningbo where a COVID-19 case was detected this week. 2021 August 12, Muyu Xu, Gavin Maguire, “Major container ports in eastern China see worsening congestion after COVID-19 cases”, in Kim Coghill, David Evans, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2021, China:
    • The containers were shipped from the eastern Chinese port of Ningbo to Piraeus by sea, and were then transported to Budapest in two trains that reached on Jan. 29 and Feb. 5, according to China's official People's Daily newspaper. 2017 February 8, “New land-sea route opens between China and central Europe”, in EFE, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2017:

Forms

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Deriveds

Ningbonese

Synonyms

Yinxian

Translations (13)

fr Ningbo (a city of China) · cmn 寧波 /宁波 (a city of China) · pt Liampó (a city of China) · yue 寧波 /宁波 (a city of China) · fi Ningbo (a city of China) · ja 寧波 (a city of China) · ar نِينْغْبُو (a city of China) · mk Нингбо (a city of China) · vi Ninh Ba (a city of China) · ko 닝보 (a city of China) · hu Ningpo (a city of China) · ko 녕파 (a city of China) · ru Нинбо́ (a city of China)

wikipedia: Frederick A. Praeger