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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats