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proper noun

Nankin

/nɑ̃.kɛ̃/

proper noun/nɑ̃.kɛ̃/

Nanjing (the capital city of Jiangsu, China)

Borrowed from Mandarin 南京 (Nánjīng), based on the Nanking court dialect from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/. Also see Tonkin and Pékin (“Beijing”).