# An-ch'ing
## English
### Etymology

From Mandarin 安慶／安庆 (Ānqìng), Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-chʻing⁴.

### Proper noun

An-ch'ing
* Alternative form of Anqing
** 1887, W. P. Groeneveldt, “Notes on the Malay Archipelago and Malacca”, in Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago‎, volume I, London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 165:" In the year 1460 the king Tu-ma-pan (Tumapel?)† sent envoys to carry tribute. When these envoys went back, and had arrived at An-ch’ing,‡ they got drunk and had a fight with foreign priests who came to bring tribute, and of whom six were killed.‡ 安慶府, in the province of An-hwui.
** 1910, J. O. P. Bland, E. Backhouse, China Under the Empress Dowager‎, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 37:But the virile and untiring energies of Yehonala, ably supported by Jung Lu and other faithful followers, soon put a new complexion on affairs, and the situation was further modified in her favour by the success of her nominee, the Commander-in-Chief, T'seng Kuo-fan, in capturing the city of An-ch’ing (in Anhui) from the rebels, a victory that was regarded as of good augury to her cause.
** 1973, Gilbert Rozman, “Regional Variations in Cities”, in Urban Networks in Ch’ing China and Tokugawa Japan‎, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:In contrast, Chiu-chiang served primarily as an accumulation point for Kiangsi rice and as a stop for commercial transport on the Yangtze river between Wuhan and An-ch’ing.
** 1996, Jacques Gernet, “Political Developments in the First Half of the Twentieth Century”, in A History of Chinese Civilization‎, 2nd edition, Cambridge History Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 629:The men installed in the central provinces by Yüan Shih-k’ai when order was restored—Feng Kuo-chang at Nanking, Tuan Ch’i-jui at An-ch’ing (in Anhwei), Li Chun at Nan-ch’ang—were not slow to demonstrate in turn their own desire to be independent of their protector.
** 1998, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia: Knowledge in Depth‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 173:Towns of lesser importance include An-ch'ing, the former provincial capital; Ma-an-shan; and Ta-t'ung.
** 2003, Ulrich Straus, “A Few Very Special POWs”, in The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II‎, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 160:Okino was still recuperating from the amputation of a leg when he received a letter from the senior Japanese officer in An-ch’ing (now Anqing), a city on the Yangtze River and the site of the nearest major Japanese base.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:An-ch'ing.

### References

* ↑ Anqing, Wade-Giles romanization An-ch’ing, in Encyclopædia Britannica
* ↑ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 346:Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Anking (An-ch’ing, Anqing)

### Further reading

* An-ch'ing at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
* “An-ch’ing”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* “An-ch'ing” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
* Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Anking or An-ch’ing”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 74, column 3

### Anagrams

* changin', hancing