Raoping

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 饒平 / 饶平 (Ráopíng).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rouʹpǐngʹ[1]
  • Hyphenation: Rao‧ping

Proper noun

Raoping

  1. A county of Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.
    • 1984 September 15 [1984 September 14], Christopher S. Wren, “FREE ENTERPRISE IN CHINA: THE UNBROKEN SHACKLES”, in The New York Times‎[2], sourced from Peking, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, World‎[3]:
      In Guangdong Province in southeastern China, 22 kinds of fees and taxes have been slapped on private businessmen by 17 different departments. In Raoping County, 265 privately employed households were made to pay an old man's rent for the county's care of the elderly.
    • 2022 November 13, Liz Lee, Zhang Yan, Liangping Gao, Cui Zhuzhu, “Tesla says it will assist police probe into fatal crash in China”, in Brenda Goh, William Mallard, editors, Reuters‎[4], archived from the original on 13 November 2022‎[5]:
      Calls to police in Raoping, the county where the accident happened, went unanswered on Sunday.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Jaoping or Jao-p’ing”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 870, column 1
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