Meanings
- A county-level city of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
Maoling is located in Xingping City, Shaanxi Province, and is the tomb of the Han Emperor Wudi (also known as Liu Che).
2011, Li Xianyao, Luo Zhewen, China's Museums, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1203 more examples
Very little is known about Ma Chun's early life. He was born in a poor family in what is today Hsingping county in Shansi^([sic – meaning Shensi]) province.
[1973, John Gittings, “How the Dragon's Backbone was Invented”, in A Chinese View of China, 1st American edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32A recent discovery is a bronze vessel with an inlaid gold ornament, excavated at Tou-ma-ts’un, Hsing-p’ing County, Shensi Province. It dates from the Late Eastern Chou period.
[1973, Jan Fontein, Tung Wu, “Chou Bronzes”, in Unearthing China's Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54, column 3On Saturday, rain and hail struck the Shaanxi counties of Suide and Xingping, killing two people and damaging about 7,000 hectares of farmland. Economic losses were calculated at more than 16.5 million yuan.
2004 July 18, “Flooding swamps many provinces, and more to come”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2023
Origin
- Mandarin興平 /兴平
- EnglishXingping
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 興平 /兴平 (Xīngpíng).
More words from Mandarin
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Chinese Cantonese 興平 /兴平
- 興平 /兴平county-level city
Chinese Mandarin 興平 /兴平
- 興平 /兴平 (Xīngpíng)county-level city
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