Pinghu

From Mandarin 平湖 (Pínghú).

• enPR: pǐngʹhǔʹ^[1]
• Rhymes: -uː

Pinghu

1. A county-level city of Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China.
   • [1959, Ping-ti Ho, “Notes”, in Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953 (Harvard East Asian Studies), number 4, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 308:

     For a brief self-appraisal of Wang's success in pao-chia work in P’ing-hu county in Chekiang, see his Sung-chou ts’ung-cheng lu (preface 1825, 1826 ed.), p. Ia.]

   • 2012 October 11, Leta Hong Fincher, “China's 'Leftover' Women”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 October 2012, Opinion‎^[3]:

     This March there was a drive in Pinghu, Zhejiang Province, for “leftover women to speedily find conjugal happiness.”

• Pinghu, P'ing-hu, Ping-hu at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pinghu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2441, column 3