"Nan-ning" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 南寧／南宁 (Nánníng), Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-ning².",
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          "ref": "1965, James Cameron, Here is Your Enemy, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, pages 16-17",
          "text": "My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam. My immigration official was suitably inscrutable; he took the thing as no great drama (which it certainly was to me), rather did he appear to regard the trip as a quaint eccentricity.",
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          "text": "One hot summer day in the Chinese city of Nan-ning, I wandered through a park of lotus leaves and exotic flowers to a pagoda where ancient women sat, drowsily, happily playing mahjongg amidst the scent of flowers, and that excellent sound of clicking tiles enchanted me; I was far from home, but that long slow summer afternoon with the mah-jongg sounds brought me back to my own continent and specifically to Mexicali, whose summer tranquillity never ends.",
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          "ref": "2011, Lisa See, Dreams of Joy, Bloomsbury, page 135",
          "text": "In January, Chairman Mao goes to the city of Nan-ning to give a speech launching what he calls the Great Leap Forward.",
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "nänʹnǐngʹ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Nan-ning"
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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 南寧／南宁 (Nánníng), Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-ning².",
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          "ref": "1965, James Cameron, Here is Your Enemy, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, pages 16-17",
          "text": "My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam. My immigration official was suitably inscrutable; he took the thing as no great drama (which it certainly was to me), rather did he appear to regard the trip as a quaint eccentricity.",
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          "text": "One hot summer day in the Chinese city of Nan-ning, I wandered through a park of lotus leaves and exotic flowers to a pagoda where ancient women sat, drowsily, happily playing mahjongg amidst the scent of flowers, and that excellent sound of clicking tiles enchanted me; I was far from home, but that long slow summer afternoon with the mah-jongg sounds brought me back to my own continent and specifically to Mexicali, whose summer tranquillity never ends.",
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