Pinggu
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See also: pínggū
English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平谷 (Pínggǔ).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
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[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 April 2021, Asia & Pacific[3]:
- 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.
Translations[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pingku or P’ing-ku”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1476, column 1
Further reading[edit]
- Pinggu, P'ing-ku, Ping-ku at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pinggu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2441, column 2
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