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Noun

1. nanjing, nanking

a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

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Obsolete
Nanjing

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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A city of east-central China on the Yangtze River northwest of Shanghai. An imperial capital and an early capital of the Republic of China, it was the site of a massacre by invading Japanese forces in 1937. The city is now the capital of Jiangsu province.

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