Meanings
- A county-level city of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.
Authorities in the northeastern city of Beipiao last week provided a subsidy of 31.8 million yuan to Linggang Beipiao Steel Pipe, a unit of Lingyuan Steel.
2013 June 7, Ruby Lian, Fayen Wong, “Some China steelmakers start to curb output, but glut to persist”, in Joseph Radford, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 13 Jul 20252 more examples
Jehol has a one-million-ton mine at Peipiao and a new open-cut mine at Fuhsin with a five-million-ton capacity.[…] Dairen is a smaller center, as are the coal-mining areas around Penchi, Fuhsin, and Peipiao.[…] Coal is also produced in eastern Jehol at Peipiao, and at the new open-cut mine at Fuhsin, 110 miles west of Mukden, where a 60 to 70-meter seam of coal lies beneath a 20-meter overburden.
[1955, George B. Cressey, Land of the 500 Million: A Geography of China, McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 135, 167, 309Dubbed Mei long, which means "soundly sleeping dragon" in Chinese, the dinosaur was about 21 inches long, or about the size of a large bird. Several features indicate its avian origins. The sleeping skeleton was found near Beipiao City in Liaoning Province.
2004 October 14, “Dinosaur Fossil Found In Sleeping Position”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2023, Findings
Origin
- Mandarin北票
- EnglishBeipiao
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北票 (Běipiào).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 北票
- 北票 (bak¹ piu³)county-level city
Chinese Mandarin 北票
- 北票 (Běipiào)county-level city
Cite this entry
Beipiao. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Beipiao
“Beipiao.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Beipiao. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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