Meanings
- A county-level city of Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China.
This March there was a drive in Pinghu, Zhejiang Province, for “leftover women to speedily find conjugal happiness.”
2012 October 11, Leta Hong Fincher, “China's 'Leftover' Women”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2012, Opinion2 more examples
For a brief self-appraisal of Wang's success in pao-chia work in P’ing-hu county in Chekiang, see his Sung-chou ts’ung-cheng lu (preface 1825, 1826 ed.), p. Ia.
[1959, Ping-ti Ho, “Notes”, in Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953 (Harvard East Asian Studies), number 4, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 308In Pinghu County on the Hangchiahu Plain of Chekiang Province, the cadres and commune members recalled how they had won high yields of both grain and cotton for many successive years.
1970 May 4 [1970 May 3], “China Celebrates May Day: Determined To Closely Follow Great Leader Chairman Mao and Win Greater Victories”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 86, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →OCLC, Communist China: National Affairs, page B 15
Origin
- Mandarin平湖
- EnglishPinghu
From Mandarin 平湖 (Pínghú).
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 平湖
- 平湖 (ping⁴ wu⁴)county-level city
Chinese Mandarin 平湖
- 平湖 (Pínghú)county-level city
Rhymes & wordplay
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