Pingcheng
See also: Píngchéng
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) P'ing-ch'eng
Etymology
From Mandarin 平城 (Píngchéng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɪŋ.t͡ʃɛŋ/, /-t͡ʃʌŋ/
Proper noun
Pingcheng
- A district of Datong, Shanxi, China.
- 1970, Grousset, René, Naomi Walford, transl., The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 77-108-759, OCLC 899101303, OL 22081029M, page 127:
- The founder of the Han dynasty, the emperor Kao-ti, hastened to the scene, drove back the Hsiung-nu, but was then blockaded by them on the Paiteng plateau near Pingcheng, in the present-day district of Tatung, on the frontiers of Shansi.
- 2020 October 10, Su, Jiede, “In Datong, a Crumbling Legacy of China’s Most Extreme Urban Makeover”, in Sixth Tone, archived from the original on 11 October 2020:
- Located about 250 kilometers west of Beijing, Datong is a small city by Chinese standards: Currently, Pingcheng District, which covers most of Datong proper, has 807,000 residents. But the city’s people could take pride in Datong’s rich coal seams and richer history.
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Translations
district
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