Pingwu

See also: Píngwǔ

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 平武 (Píngwǔ).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pĭng′wo͞o′[1]
  • Hyphenation: Ping‧wu

Proper noun

Pingwu

  1. A county of Mianyang, Sichuan, China.
    • 2008 May 19, Lucy Hornby, Chris Buckley, Ben Blanchard, Benjamin Kang Lim, Matthew Jones, “Fears of new quake prompt panic in Chinese town”, in Nick Macfie, Sanjeev Miglani, editors, Reuters‎[1], archived from the original on 11 January 2026:
      Xinhua news agency reported a magnitude 5.0 aftershock hit Pingwu County early on Tuesday, causing buildings to creak in Chengdu, about 150 km from the tremor's epicentre.

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References

  1. ^ Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Pingwu or P’ing-wu”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1476, column 2
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