Associations to the word «Nanking»

Wiktionary

NANKING, proper noun. Alternative and older name of Nanjing.

Dictionary definition

NANKING, 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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca