Pingshan

From Mandarin 平山 (Píngshān).

• IPA^(key): /pɪŋ.ʃɑn/, enPR: pǐngʹshänʹ[1]

Pingshan

1. A county of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, in northeastern China.
   • 1979 January, “Capital of One of the Warring States”, in China Reconstructs‎, volume XXVIII, number 1, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, column 1:

     THE remains of the capital of the State of Chungshan founded by nomadic people from the north provide additional insight into life in the Warring States period (475-221 B.C.). Excavation was done between 1974 and 1977 in present-day Pingshan county, which is just northwest of the city of Shihchiachuang in western Hopei province.

   • 1999 April 28, Eric Pace, “Cao Huoxing, 75; Wrote Patriotic Chinese Music”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, World‎:

     Mr. Cao was born in Pingshan county in Hebei Province, in northern China. He was a composer from the age of 16 and reportedly wrote more than 1,500 songs.

   • 2014 April 5, “China sentences 2 to death in fatal poisoning”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 07 September 2022‎:

     Two sisters died after drinking the yogurt, which was placed with a notebook and a pencil in a plastic bag on the way to the other kindergarten in Pingshan County.
     Shijiazhuang Intermediate People’s Court in northern China found both the headmaster and the accomplice guilty of poisoning and sentenced them to death, CCTV said.

• Pingshan, P'ing-shan, Ping-shan at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pingtan Island”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2441, column 3