Pingding

See also: píngdìng and Píngdǐng

English

Alternative forms

(from Wade–Giles) P'ing-ting

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 平定 (Píngdìng).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɪŋ.dɪŋ/

Proper noun

Pingding

A county of Yangquan, Shanxi, China.
- 2013 August 2, “5 still missing in flooded mine in N China”, in China Daily‎, archived from the original on 06 August 2013:
  Underground water gushed into a coal mine owned by Guzhou Weifeng Mining Co Ltd in Pingding County at around 7 pm Wednesday when 76 miners were working. Seventy-one managed to escape and five were trapped inside.

Translations

county

Chinese:
Mandarin: 平定 (zh) (Píngdìng)
Japanese: please add this translation if you can

References

Shabad, Theodore (1972), “Index”, in China's Changing Map‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 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 parentheses […] Pingting (P'ing-ting, Pingding)

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