| The name of the metro can often reveal a city’s historical folk style and cultural characteristics. The study of the Nanjing Metro station names is helpful to understand their names and cultural connotations. This article, mainly taking the 145 station names of 8 routes of Nanjing Metro as the research object, carried out research based on the social linguistics and came to the conclusion that Nanjing Metro stations uses the road signs, place of residence, attractions, business circles, transport hub station and the well known universities as the main reference, of which the majority have three, four, five syllable. They are indicative, clear and concise, easy to identify and remember. The names of Nanjing Metro stations bear historical, economic, religious and social culture of Nanjing, which reflects the integration of Nanjing’s development in history and the times. |