巴陵

Chinese

(suff. for certain nouns); to hope; to wish
(suff. for certain nouns); to hope; to wish; Palestinian, Palestine (abbrev.); Pakistan (abbrev.); Pascal (unit of pressure)
 
mound; tomb; hill
mound; tomb; hill; mountain
 
trad. (巴陵)
simp. #(巴陵)

Etymology

() may be a Kra-Dai substrate; compare Proto-Tai *praːᴬ (stone mountain), whence Zhuang bya, Thai ผา (pǎa).

Pronunciation


Proper noun

巴陵

  1. (history) () Baling (a former commandery of imperial China that existed between the Liu Song and Sui dynasties, the territory of which covered modern-day Yueyang and parts of Hubei)
  2. (history) () Baling (a former county of Hunan, China, established in 280 CE; renamed Yueyang county in 1913)