Associations to the word «Nanjing»

Wiktionary

NANJING, proper noun. The capital of the Jiangsu province of eastern People's Republic of China; a former capital of the Republic of China.

Dictionary definition

NANJING, noun. A city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope