Pingyu

English

Alternative forms

• P'ing-yü (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 平輿／平舆.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪŋ.ju/

Proper noun

Pingyu

1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
   • 1958, India Quarterly‎^[1], volumes 14-15, Indian Council of World Affairs, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:

     Two counties—Suiping and Pingyu—in the Hsinyang district of Honan province took the lead in this movement.

   • 1996, Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine‎^[2], The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117:

     Retribution was savage after Lu Xianwen denounced this as ‘sabotage of production’ and demanded the punishment of offenders. Cadres in Xiangyang Dian commune in Pingyu county ordered the culprits to be dressed in mourning.

   • 2004 February 8, “China Confirms 3 Outbreaks of Bird Flu”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 August 2023, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     State television, citing officials, confirmed that outbreaks in Enzhou in Hubei Province and Pingyu in Henan Province were indeed the lethal strain, and added a fresh H5N1 outbreak in Nanchang in Jiangxi Province.

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

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平輿／平舆 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Pingyu, P'ing-yu, Ping-yu at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.