Pinggu

See also: pínggū

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平谷 (Pínggǔ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɪŋ.ɡu/, enPR: pǐngʹgo͞oʹ[1]

Proper noun

Pinggu

  1. A district of Beijing, China, formerly a county.
    • 2021 April 5, Lily Kuo, Lyric Li, “China’s covid vaccine drive is lagging. Free food could help turn things around.”, in The Washington Post‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 April 2021, Asia & Pacific‎[3]:
      In Pinggu, a suburb of Beijing, residents were told that they would receive 50-yuan ($7.60) prizes in cash or merchandise once they had been fully vaccinated.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pingku or P’ing-ku”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1476, column 1

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