Pinggu
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See also: pínggū
English
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平谷 (Pínggǔ).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pinggu
- A district of Beijing, China, formerly a county.
- 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, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 April 2021, Asia & Pacific:
- 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.
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References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, 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
Further reading
- Pinggu, P'ing-ku, Ping-ku at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pinggu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2441, column 2