Sinkiang
Meanings
name
- Synonym of Xinjiang: A Uyghur autonomous region of China, located in the sparsely populated northwest.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 新疆 (Xīnjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].
Synonyms
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