Pingding

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See also: píngdìng and Píngdǐng

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Etymology[edit]

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 平定 (Píngdìng).

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Pingding

  1. A county of Yangquan, Shanxi, China.
    • 2013 August 2, “5 still missing in flooded mine in N China”, in China Daily‎[3], archived from the original on 06 August 2013‎[4]:
      Underground water gushed into a coal mine owned by Guzhou Weifeng Mining Co Ltd in Pingding County at around 7 pm Wednesday when 76 miners were working. Seventy-one managed to escape and five were trapped inside.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map‎[1], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 360:
    Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Pingting (P'ing-ting, Pingding)
  2. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pingting or P’ing-ting”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[2], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1476, column 2

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