an earlier attempt to represent its pronunciation in the Beijing form of Mandarin, now represented in pinyin as .

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

During the Warring States Era, settlements within modern Nanjing were known as Yuecheng (}}, , "Yue City") and Jinlingyi (}}, , "City of the Golden" or "Precious Burial Mound")

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