Jianping

Jian·ping
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proper noun

A county of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.

    After finishing the one-year course, Wang was made cotton consultant for the whole of Chienping county.

    [1975 May, Hsueh-wen Hsin, “A New Type of College”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 5, Peking: China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 7–8
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    Jianping County is located in west Liaoning Province. With an annual rainfall of 400 mm, the climate falls in the semiarid category with monsoon climate.

    2001, Rongsen Lu, “Combating Desertification with Seabuckthorn”, in Dov Pasternak, Arnold Schlissel, editors, Combating Desertification with Plants, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 296

    Niuheliang is a hilly ridge on the boundary between Lingyuan and Jianping County in Liaoning Province. From 1983 to 1985, archaeologists uncovered more than ten ritual sites and a group of tombs.

    2001, Tianlong Jiao, “Gender Studies in Chinese Neolithic Archaeology”, in Gender and the Archaeology of Death (Gender and Archaeology Series), number 2 (Archaeology; Gender Studies), Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58

Origin

  1. Mandarin建平
  2. EnglishJianping

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 建平 (Jiànpíng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 建平
  • 建平county
Chinese Mandarin 建平
  • 建平 (Jiànpíng)county
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