Sinkiang

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Sinkiang

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From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 新疆 (Xīnjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

proper noun Singkiang

Synonym of Xinjiang: A Uyghur autonomous region of China, located in the sparsely populated northwest. I, the Minister, having received this dispatch have examined and find it contains, that having arrested three culprits Tsáutsz' Láutá, Hwá Kwányuen and Cháng Süchun, they have been sentenced to decapitation, and their heads to be hung up in a cage upon a pole to public view; and six others Cháng Yun
Similar: Xinjiang

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@misc{sinkiang_2026,
  title = {Sinkiang},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sinkiang},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}