Pingdingshan

Ping·ding·shan
P3I1N1G2D2I1N1G2S1H4A1N1

proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.

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Meanings

proper noun

alternative P'ing-ting-shan · alternative Pingtingshan

  1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.

    Together with nearby Lushan county, Pingdingshan was the champion in Henan province’s iron and steel production. Here more than forty thousand agriculture laborers had been diverted to make iron and steel.

    2013, Xun Zhou, “Unnatural Disasters”, in Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962: An Oral History, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 112
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    On the edges of an old and depleted mine on the rugged outskirts of Pingdingshan in central China's Henan province, workers sift through dunes of low-grade coal, looking to extract every last calorie of energy from the city's crumbling seams.

    2021 November 11, David Stanway, Xihao Jiang, Shanghai newsroom, “China coal's last hurrah comes too late for old mining towns”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2021, Energy

Origin

  1. Mandarin平頂山 /平顶山
  2. EnglishPingdingshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平頂山 /平顶山 (píngdǐngshān).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 平頂山 /平顶山
  • 平頂山 /平顶山 (ping⁴ ding² saan¹)prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 平頂山 /平顶山
  • 平頂山 /平顶山 (Píngdǐngshān)prefecture-level city

Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

Pingdingshan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pingdingshan

MLA

“Pingdingshan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pingdingshan. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Pingdingshan,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pingdingshan.

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