Pingli
English
Alternative forms
- P'ing-li (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From Mandarin 平利.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɪŋ.li/, enPR: pǐngʹlēʹ[1]
Proper noun
Pingli
- A county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China.
- 1949 July 14, “China Official Swears 'Win All Lose All' Fight”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[2], page 30.24-4383:
- Teng said a large number of Communists were striking westward from Sian, capital of Shensi province. He added the Nationalists had lost Pingli in southern Shensi after a battle in which both sides suffered heavy casualties.
- 2017, Critical Mineral Resources of the United States: Economic and Environmental Geology and Prospects for Future Supply[3], number 1802, , →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 028, column 1:
- In Pingli County, Shaanxi Province, China, the Badao bone coal contains 41 to 75 ppm of selenium, with a mean concentration of 57.5 ppm. […] The local environment in Pingli County was found to contain soil with a mean concentration of 0.3 to 1.1 ppm selenium, and agricultural crops with concentration of 0.57 to 2.75 ppm selenium (Fang and others, 2003).
Translations
county
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References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pingli or P’ing-li”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1476, column 1
Further reading
- Pingli, P'ing-li, Ping-li at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pingli”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2441, column 3