Pinggu

See also: pínggū

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平谷 (Pínggǔ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɪŋ.ɡu/, enPR: pĭng′go͞o′[1]
  • Hyphenation: Ping‧gu

Proper noun

Pinggu

  1. A district of Beijing, China, formerly a county.
    • [1977 August 5 [1977 January], “A Brief Introduction of Three Spring Wheat Varieties”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 389, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking K'O-HSUEH SHIH-YEN [Scientific Experiment], No 1, Jan 77, pp 28-29, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Agriculture, page 11:
      In the Ta-hua-shan [translating 大華山 / 大华山] commune of P'ing-ku county, Peking Municipality, variety comparing experiments carried out by the Hou-pei-kung [translating 後北宮 / 后北宫] brigade achieved a yield of 582.5 chin per mou, 21.4 percent more than Tanori and 8.5 percent more than Potam.]
    • 2021 April 5, Lily Kuo, Lyric Li, “China’s covid vaccine drive is lagging. Free food could help turn things around.”, in The Washington Post‎[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 April 2021, Asia & Pacific‎[2]:
      In Pinggu, a suburb of Beijing, residents were told that they would receive 50-yuan ($7.60) prizes in cash or merchandise once they had been fully vaccinated.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Pingku or P’ing-ku”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1476, column 1

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