P'ing-yao

See also: Pingyao

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 平遙 / 平遥 (Píngyáo) Wade–Giles[1] romanization: Pʻing²-yao².

Proper noun

P'ing-yao

  1. Alternative form of Pingyao.
    • 1910, Berthold Laufer, “Christian Art in China”, in Sonderabdruck au den Mitteilungen des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin, volume XIII, number I, Berlin, page 3:
      A. FORKE² describes two figures of Europeans noticed by him on a Pʽai-lou near Pʽing-yao hsien, Shansi Province; each man is leading a lion by a halter.
    • 1968, Jerome Alan Cohen, “Informal Adjustment and Sanctioning”, in The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1963: An Introduction‎[2], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181‎[3]:
      In February of this year the chief procurator of the people’s procuracy of P’ing-yao county, Sun Pang-chin, with the active support of the county Party committee, led a four-man work group to the administrative village of Kuan-ti.

References

  1. ^ Blunden, Caroline; Mark Elvin (1998), “Gazetteer”, in Graham Speake, editor, Cultural Atlas of China‎[1], Revised edition, Checkmark Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 232, 235: “Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription. […] Pingyao/P'ing-yao 37°11′N 112°09′E, 102”
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