Pingding
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 平定 (Píngdìng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɪŋ.dɪŋ/, enPR: pǐngʹdǐngʹ[2]
Proper noun
Pingding
- A county of Yangquan, Shanxi, China.
- 2013 August 2, “5 still missing in flooded mine in N China”, in China Daily, archived from the original on 06 August 2013:
- Underground water gushed into a coal mine owned by Guzhou Weifeng Mining Co Ltd in Pingding County at around 7 pm Wednesday when 76 miners were working. Seventy-one managed to escape and five were trapped inside.
Translations
References
- Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 360:
- Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Pingting (P'ing-ting, Pingding)
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pingting or P’ing-ting”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1476, column 2
Further reading
- Pingding, P'ing-ting, Ping-ting, Pingting at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pingding”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2441, column 2
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