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Bijie
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English
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 畢節.
Pronunciation
bēʹjyěʹen 1952 Pichieh Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1469 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1469/ 2
en Bi jie
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Guizhou c/China.
en 1972 Oliver J. Caldwell The Great Earth A Secret War: Americans in China, 1944-1945 https://archive.org/details/secretwaramerica0000cald_p8l9/ w:Southern Illinois University Press 0-8093-0545-3 73-7755 315143 156 https://archive.org/details/secretwaramerica0000cald_p8l9/page/156/ At a small city called Pichieh, there was a mission operated by German Lutheran Sisters.There was a tremendous canyon beyond Pichieh. It was comparable to the gorge of the Salween on the Burma Road or the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. on
en 1978 Translations on People's Republic of China https://books.google.com/books?id=f8MVAAAAMAAJ w:Joint Publications Research Service 439-447 2370938 In order to popularize the transplanting of rice seedlings with machines, Pi-chieh Prefecture held an on-the-spot meeting in Chin-sha County to publicize this method of transplanting. on
en JUNE 12, 2015 w:Edward Wong Chinese Premier Urges Officials to Fight Events That Led 4 Children to Drink Pesticide w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150613101910/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/world/asia/chinese-premier-urges-officials-to-fight-events-that-led-4-children-to-drink-pesticide.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific The siblings lived in a house in Guizhou Province, one of the poorest areas in China; their village, Cizhu, is under the administration of the city of Bijie.
en August 28, 2017 Philip Wen Mountain collapses on township in China's remote southwest, killing two Nick Macfie w:Reuters https://archive.ph/kfIGs BEIJING https://www.reuters.com/article/business/environment/mountain-collapses-on-township-in-chinas-remote-southwest-killing-two-idUSKCN1B80ST/ July 12, 2025 The landslide sent rubble sweeping over 34 homes in Zhangjiawan township in the city of Bijie, Guizhou province.
Translations
prefecture-level city
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 畢節
Mandarin: cmn 畢節
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 2008 Bijie Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 425 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/425/ 3
en 2-syllable words