No. 1,713 in Chinese
南京
Nanjing: A city in eastern China, historically significant and a former capital.
In a sentence
南京是一个美丽的城市。
Nanjing is a beautiful city.
Here, '南京' serves as a proper noun referring to the city name.
我从南京出发，去了上海。
I departed from Nanjing and went to Shanghai.
In this sentence, '南京' denotes the origin city of the speaker's journey.
他在南京大学学习中文。
He studies Chinese at Nanjing University.
'南京' here specifies the location of the university where the subject studies.
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