Meanings
- A prefecture-level city of Guizhou, China.
The landslide sent rubble sweeping over 34 homes in Zhangjiawan township in the city of Bijie, Guizhou province.
2017 August 28, Philip Wen, “Mountain collapses on township in China's remote southwest, killing two”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, sourced from BEIJING, archived from the original on 12 Jul 20253 more examples
At a small city called Pichieh, there was a mission operated by German Lutheran Sisters.[…] There was a tremendous canyon beyond Pichieh. It was comparable to the gorge of the Salween on the Burma Road or the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.
[1972, Oliver J. Caldwell, “The Great Earth”, in A Secret War: Americans in China, 1944-1945, Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 156In order to popularize the transplanting of rice seedlings with machines, Pi-chieh Prefecture held an on-the-spot meeting in Chin-sha County to publicize this method of transplanting.
[1978, Translations on People's Republic of China, numbers 439-447, Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLCThe siblings lived in a house in Guizhou Province, one of the poorest areas in China; their village, Cizhu, is under the administration of the city of Bijie.
2015 June 12, Edward Wong, “Chinese Premier Urges Officials to Fight Events That Led 4 Children to Drink Pesticide”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2015, Asia Pacific
Origin
- Mandarin畢節 /毕节
- EnglishBijie
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 畢節 /毕节 (Bìjié).
More words from Mandarin
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Chinese Cantonese 畢節 /毕节
- 畢節 /毕节 (bat¹ zit³)prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 畢節 /毕节
- 畢節 /毕节 (Bìjié)prefecture-level city
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Bijie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bijie
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