Ying

Borrowed from Chinese, mainly Chinese 應 / 应.

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Ying (plural Yings)

1. A surname.
   • 2024 March 18, Nectar Gan and Yong Xiong, “A dissident in Europe is enraging Beijing. Now Chinese police are coming for his social media followers”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     That account belongs to Li Ying, a Chinese artist turned dissident in Italy who rose to prominence in 2022 for live-tweeting the nationwide protests in China against Xi’s zero-Covid policy.

2. A county of Shuozhou, Shanxi, China.
   • 2002, Guo Daiheng, “The Liao, Song, Xi Xia, and Jin Dynasties”, in Nancy S. Steinhardt, editor, Chinese Architecture‎^[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 136:

     The Liao were responsible for building the tallest and oldest extant wooden pagoda, the famous Timber Pagoda in Ying county, Shanxi.

   • 2004, Treasures of China‎^[3], Reader's Digest, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 120:

     This magnificent 900-year-old five-story pagoda in the Fugong Monastery in Ying County, Shanxi, is the oldest and largest wooden pagoda in China and one of very few ancient wooden structures to have survived earthquakes, fire and other ravages of time, apparently none the worse for wear.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ying.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ying is the 15043^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1964 individuals. Ying is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (89.92%) individuals.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Ying Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3528, column 2

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