Etymograph

English

Nanzheng

Nanzheng comes from Mandarin 南鄭.

  1. Mandarinmodern南鄭
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1990Nanzheng

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Mandarinmodern南鄭
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1990Nanzheng

Earliest quotation: 1990, John S. Aird, Slaughter of the Innocents: Coercive Birth Control in China: “In November a district of Nanzheng County set a…”

Today it means

name A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Mandarin 南鄭 / Nanzheng