Pingshun

P3I1N1G2S1H4U1N1
/pɪŋ.ʃʌn//-ʃun/

proper noun

A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

proper noun

alternative P'ing-shun

  1. A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.

    Liu Pin-yen was named as the number one rightist on the China Youth Daily and in 1958 he was sent to Pingshun County in Shansi Province for labor reform.

    1989, Issues & Studies, volume 25, numbers 7-12, Institute of International Relations, ROC (中華民國國際關係研究所), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 125
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    There stood a man with two horses. His story was that he had been sent by his master, who was none other than the magistrate of Pingshun County, the night before and had traveled all night over the mountains to come and get us to go and take care of the magistrate’s wife who had been in labor, unable to deliver, for two whole days.[...] The fact is that we had been hoping and praying for some months that our missionaries might find an opening into the County of Pingshun, about thirty-five miles to the east of Luan in Shansi, province of North China.

    1945, Paul E. Adolph, “A Magistrate Calls the Doctor”, in Surgery Speaks to China: The Experiences of a Medical Missionary to China in Peace and in War, China Inland Mission, →OCLC, page 13

Origin

  1. Mandarin平順 /平顺
  2. EnglishPingshun

From Mandarin 平順 /平顺 (Píngshùn).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 平順 /平顺
  • 平順 /平顺 (Píngshùn)county
Japanese 平順
  • 平順 (Heijun)county
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