Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Pingding.
She walked back and forth along the canal three times and wiped her eyes again. He was in P’ing-ting. P’ing-ting was more than two hours away. If she hurried, she could reach the place in two hours.
1999, Ch'ing-wen Cheng, edited by Pang-yuan Chi, Three-Legged Horse, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1271 more example
Similarly, though without clear explanation, the population of P’ing-ting county in Shansi jumped from 2,014 households and 15,481 mouths in 1736 to 23,475 households and 102,749 mouths in 1751. It seems that only after 1751 did this county begin to have more reliable population returns.²¹
1959, Ping-ti Ho, “Population Data, 1741–1775”, in Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953 (Harvard East Asian Studies), number 4, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43
Origin
- Mandarin平定
- EnglishP'ing-ting
From Mandarin 平定 (Píngdìng) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-ting⁴.
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