Keping
See also: keping
English
Alternative forms
- K'o-p'ing (from Wade-Giles)
Etymology
From pinyin romanization of Mandarin 柯坪.
Proper noun
Keping
- Synonym of Kalpin
- 1991 March 12, 5,000 Left Homeless by Xinjiang Earthquake, United States Joint Publications Research Service, page 96:
- Aftershocks continued to rattle Keping county in Xinjiang region, where the earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale hit late Monday causing 10 million yuan (1.9 million dollars) in losses, a ministry statement said.
- 2008, "Illegal Structure," Not "Mosque," Removed in Xinjiang, United States Department of State, page 2:
- The spokesman told reporters that he "double-checked with the relevant authorities," and found that some "peasants and herdsmen" in Keping County, Aksu, "made a construction" for personal religious use on land intended for agricultural use, thus making the construction illegal.
- 2014 April 17, “Chinese police shoot man dead at checkpoint in Xinjiang”, in Reuters:
- The man, Abdul Basiti Abdulimiti, was a “terrorist” from Keping county in Aksu prefecture, the Aksu government said on its website.
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Translations
Kalpin — see Kalpin
Anagrams
- Peking