Pingdingshan

Pingdingshan

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) P'ing-ting-shan
• Pingtingshan

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 平頂山／平顶山 (Píngdǐngshān).

Proper noun

Pingdingshan

1. A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
   • 2013, Zhou, Xun, “Unnatural Disasters”, in Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962: An Oral History‎, Yale University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2013015473, OCLC 844731551, page 112:

     Together with nearby Lushan county, Pingdingshan was the champion in Henan province’s iron and steel production. Here more than forty thousand agriculture laborers had been diverted to make iron and steel.

Translations

prefecture-level city

Chinese: Mandarin: 平頂山 (zh), 平顶山 (zh) (Píngdǐngshān) Japanese: please add this translation if you can