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Pingding
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píngdìng Píngdǐng
English
Pingding County
Alternative forms
en P'ing-ting Wade-Giles
en Pingting
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1972 Shabad Theodore Index China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 482667885 345, 360 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/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 parenthesesPingting (P'ing-ting, Pingding)en 1998 Blunden Caroline w:Mark Elvin Gazetteer Graham Speake Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File Checkmark Books 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 9770589M 232, 235 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/235/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Pingding/P'ing-ting 37°50′N 113°28′E, 31 romanization of the en cmn 平定 Píngdìng.
Pronunciation
en /pɪŋ.dɪŋ/, pĭng′dĭng′Pingting or P’ing-ting 1476 2
en Ping ding
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Yangquan province/Shanxi c/China.
Translations
county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 平定
Mandarin: cmn 平定
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
Pingding, P'ing-ting, Ping-ting, Pingting
en 1998 Pingding Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2441 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2441/ 2