Pingdingshan
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 平頂山 / 平顶山 (Píngdǐngshān).
Pronunciation
- enPR: pǐngʹdǐngʹshänʹ
Proper noun
Pingdingshan
- A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
- 2009 September 8, Mark McDonald, “Gas Explosion Kills 35 Miners and Traps 44, China Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 January 2018, Asia Pacific:
- The explosion rocked a coal pit in the city of Pingdingshan, in Henan Province, about 1 a.m. on Tuesday, a city spokesman told the official Xinhua news agency.
- 2013, Xun Zhou, “Unnatural Disasters”, in Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962: An Oral History, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 112:
- Together with nearby Lushan county, Pingdingshan was the champion in Henan province’s iron and steel production. Here more than forty thousand agriculture laborers had been diverted to make iron and steel.
Translations
prefecture-level city
References
- ^ “China”, in The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 16, 1995, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 42-43: “Conventional/Wade-Giles Pinyin […] Ping-ting-shan.......Pingdingshan”
Further reading
- Pingdingshan, P'ing-ting-shan, Ping-ting-shan, Pingtingshan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pingdingshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2441, column 2