Pingshun

See also: píngshùn

English

Alternative forms

• P'ing-shun (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 平順／平顺 (Píngshùn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪŋ.ʃʌn/, /-ʃun/, enPR: pǐngʹsho͝onʹ

Proper noun

Pingshun

1. A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
   • 1945, Paul E. Adolph, “A Magistrate Calls the Doctor”, in Surgery Speaks to China: The Experiences of a Medical Missionary to China in Peace and in War‎^[2], China Inland Mission, →OCLC, page 13:

     There stood a man with two horses. His story was that he had been sent by his master, who was none other than the magistrate of Pingshun County, the night before and had traveled all night over the mountains to come and get us to go and take care of the magistrate’s wife who had been in labor, unable to deliver, for two whole days.[...]
     The fact is that we had been hoping and praying for some months that our missionaries might find an opening into the County of Pingshun, about thirty-five miles to the east of Luan in Shansi, province of North China.

   • 1989, Issues & Studies‎^[3], volume 25, numbers 7-12, Institute of International Relations, ROC (中華民國國際關係研究所), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 125:

     Liu Pin-yen was named as the number one rightist on the China Youth Daily and in 1958 he was sent to Pingshun County in Shansi Province for labor reform.

   • 2022 March 18, Shenggao Yuan, “Rural commerce gets digital tech upgrade”, in China Daily‎^[4], archived from the original on 07 September 2022, page 6, column 4:

     The internet and digital technologies are bringing fundamental changes to the agricultural industry and lives in rural Shanxi, said a resident in the county of Pingshun in the southeast of the province.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pingshun.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平順／平顺 (zh) (Píngshùn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Pingshun, P'ing-shun, Ping-shun at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pingshun”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2442, column 1