Lingshi

See also: língshí and lǐngshì

English

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靈石 / 灵石.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /(ˈ)lɪŋˈʃi/, enPR: lǐngʹshûʹ[1]

Proper noun

Lingshi

  1. A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
    • 1995, Tanaka Norio, “A Memorial to Three War Buddies”, in Beth Cary, transl., edited by Frank Gibney, Sensō: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War[2], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 78:
      On 28 December 1937, a force of twenty-five men led by a platoon commander was dispatched to a village in Lingshi County, Shanxi Province, for pacification activity and to scout enemy movements.
    • 2007 January 21, Chris Buckley, Guo Shipeng, Vivi Lin, “China outcry grows over beating death of reporter”, in Reuters[3], archived from the original on 13 May 2022, World News:
      Rescuers prepare to go down a coal mine at Nanshan Colliery in Lingshi county, China, November 15, 2006. Chinese police are investigating the death of a reporter beaten up while probing the country's deadly coal mines, media reported on Wednesday amid a growing outcry.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lingshi.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Lingshih”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1059, column 2

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