Meanings
proper noun
alternative Mao-p'ing
- A town in Zigui, Yichang, Hubei, China.
Zigui, home of the Qu Yuan temple, was the first town to be completely relocated when, in 1999, the residents moved downstream to Maoping, not far from the dam site.
2002, Deirdre Chetham, “The Eve of the Flood”, in Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223
Origin
- Mandarin茅坪
- EnglishMaoping
From Mandarin 茅坪 (Máopíng).
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Chinese Mandarin 茅坪
- 茅坪 (Máopíng)town in central China
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