Bijie
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 畢節/毕节 (Bìjié).
Proper noun
Bijie
- A prefecture-level city in Guizhou, China.
- [1978, Translations on People's Republic of China, number 439-447, Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC:
- 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.]
- 2015 June 12, Wong, Edward, “Chinese Premier Urges Officials to Fight Events That Led 4 Children to Drink Pesticide”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-06-13, 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.
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Translations
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Bijie”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 425, column 3
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