Pinghu

See also: pínghú

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 平湖 (Pínghú).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pĭng′hŭ′[1]
  • Rhymes: -uː
  • Hyphenation: Ping‧hu

Proper noun

Pinghu

  1. A county-level city of Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China.
    • [1959, Ping-ti Ho, “Notes”, in Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953 (Harvard East Asian Studies), number 4, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 308:
      For a brief self-appraisal of Wang's success in pao-chia work in P’ing-hu county in Chekiang, see his Sung-chou ts’ung-cheng lu (preface 1825, 1826 ed.), p. Ia.]
    • 1970 May 4 [1970 May 3], “China Celebrates May Day: Determined To Closely Follow Great Leader Chairman Mao and Win Greater Victories”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 86, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →OCLC, Communist China: National Affairs, page B 15:
      In Pinghu County on the Hangchiahu Plain of Chekiang Province, the cadres and commune members recalled how they had won high yields of both grain and cotton for many successive years.
    • 2012 October 11, Leta Hong Fincher, “China's 'Leftover' Women”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 October 2012, Opinion‎[2]:
      This March there was a drive in Pinghu, Zhejiang Province, for “leftover women to speedily find conjugal happiness.”

Translations

References

  1. ^ Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Pinghu or P’ing-hu”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1475, column 3

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