Meanings
- A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.
Metallic minerals are associated mainly with the copper-mining center of Paiyin, 45 miles northeast of Lanchow. Paiyin was raised to the status of city in 1958, after construction of the Lanchow-Paotow railroad had provided access to the deposit.
[1972, Theodore Shabad, “The Kansu Corridor”, in China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71, Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2941 more example
Thirty years after Gao Chengyong embarked on a succession of 11 rape-murders of women in northwest China, a court sentenced him to death on Friday, following an investigation that involved sifting through 230,000 fingerprints. The sentence by a court in Baiyin, a small city in Gansu Province, was not unexpected in China, which executes more prisoners than any other.
2018 March 30, Chris Buckley, “‘Vicious’ Killer of 11 Women Gets Death Penalty in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2018, Asia Pacific
Origin
- Mandarin白銀 /白银
- EnglishBaiyin
From Mandarin 白銀 /白银 (Báiyín).
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Chinese Mandarin 白銀 /白银
- 白銀 /白银 (Báiyín)prefecture-level city
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Baiyin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Baiyin
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