Editing Nanjing (section)

==Names==
The city has a number of other names, and some historical names are now used as names of districts of the city.

The city was known as '''Yuecheng''' and '''Jinling''' or "Ginling" ({{lang|zh-hant|金陵}}) from the Warring States Era. '''Jianye''' ({{zhi|t=建业|w=Chien-yeh}}), which means 'build an empire', was officially designated for the city during the [[Eastern Wu dynasty]]. The city first became a Chinese national capital as early as the [[Jin dynasty (265–420)|Jin dynasty]] and was renamed '''[[Jiankang]]'''.{{efn|This renaming took place due to the crowning of Sima Ye (posthumously known as [[Emperor Min of Jin]]) as emperor to avoid [[naming taboo]].}} Nanjing is also called Jincheng ({{lang|zh|金城}}, Golden City), derived from Jinling City.

The name '''Nanjing''', which means "southern capital", was officially designated for the city during the [[Ming dynasty]], about six hundred years later.{{efn|Since becoming a southern capital, the city has been called Nanjing ({{lang|zh|南京}}) unofficially, and was officially named Nanjing after Beijing ({{lang|zh|北京}}) became a capital city during the early [[Ming dynasty]]; the name appears in Ming dynasty echo poem ({{lang|zh-hant|蕭子顯 《奉和昭明太子鐘山講解詩》: "崇嶽基舊宇, 盤嶺跨南京"}}), for example. It's also unofficially called Nandu ({{lang|zh|南都}}), and Nandu Fanhui Tu ({{lang-zh|labels=no |t=《南都繁會圖》 |l=Nandu Prosperity Picture}}) is an example.}}  In English, the spelling '''Nanking''' was traditional until [[pinyin]], developed in the 1950s and internationally adopted in the 1980s, standardized the spelling as "Nanjing".

During the [[Qing dynasty]], the city was called '''Jiangning''' ({{zhi|t=江寧|w=Kiang-ning}}), whose first character '''jiang''' ({{lang-zh|t=江|p=jiāng|l=river}}, i.e. the [[Yangtze]]) is the former part of the name [[Jiangsu]] and second character '''ning''' ({{lang|zh-hant|寧}}, simplified form {{lang-zh|labels=no|s=宁|l=peace}}) is the shortened name of Nanjing. When it was the capital of the [[Republic of China (1912–49)]], jing ({{lang-zh|labels=no|c=京|l=capital}}) was adopted as the abbreviation of Nanjing.