Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Pingyao.
A. FORKE² describes two figures of Europeans noticed by him on a Pʽai-lou near Pʽing-yao hsien, Shansi Province; each man is leading a lion by a halter.
1910, Berthold Laufer, “Christian Art in China”, in Sonderabdruck au den Mitteilungen des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin, volume XIII, number I, Berlin, page 31 more example
In February of this year the chief procurator of the people’s procuracy of P’ing-yao county, Sun Pang-chin, with the active support of the county Party committee, led a four-man work group to the administrative village of Kuan-ti.
1968, Jerome Alan Cohen, “Informal Adjustment and Sanctioning”, in The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1963: An Introduction, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181
Origin
- Mandarin平遙 /平遥
- EnglishP'ing-yao
From Mandarin 平遙 /平遥 (Píngyáo) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-yao².
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