Lingbao
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Ling-pao
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 靈寶／灵宝 (Língbǎo).
Proper noun
Lingbao
- A county-level city in Sanmenxia, Henan, China.
- 2020 May 24, “China Focus: Rare pottery kiln unearthed at 6,000-year-old ruin”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 04 August 2020:
- A total of 31 pottery kilns were found at the Chengyan ruins in the county-level city of Lingbao, which is under the jurisdiction of Sanmenxia City, said Wei Xingtao, deputy head of the provincial institute of cultural relics and archaeology.
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Translations
county-level city
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References
- “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, LCCN 79-42627, OCLC 781411242, pages 476, 481: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Ling-pao (Lingbao) 靈寶”
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lingbao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1745, column 2