Pingxiang

See also: Píngxiāng and Píngxiáng

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pǐngʹshyängʹ[1]

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萍鄉 / 萍乡 (Píngxiāng).

Proper noun

Pingxiang

  1. A prefecture-level city of Jiangxi, China.
    • 2012 September 3, “China: Deadly Blast at Coal Mine”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 September 2012, Asia Pacific‎[3]:
      The official Xinhua News Agency said dozens of miners were working when the blast ripped through the Gaokeng coal mine in Pingxiang, in Jiangxi Province, on Sunday.
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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pingsiang or P’ing-hsiang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1476, column 1

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 憑祥 / 凭祥 (Píngxiáng).

Proper noun

Pingxiang

  1. A county-level city of Chongzuo, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
    • 1984 March 29 [1984 March 28], “AROUND THE WORLD; China Reports Firing On Vietnamese Plane”, in The New York Times‎[4], sourced from AP, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, World‎[5]:
      The Vietnamese MIG-21 was fired on as it flew over Pingxiang in the southwest Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, the agency said.
      "The plane was on a reconnaissance mission," it said. "The aircraft turned back to Vietnam after the incident."
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