Meanings
- A town in Xixia district, Yinchuan, Ningxia autonomous region, China.
Take the coach from Nanmen Square, Yinchuan, to Zhenbeipu Town and then take a taxi from Zhenbeipu Town to Helankou, which will cost you about 15 yuan.
2006 August 11, Jackie Zhang, “Ningxia — a cool journey to ancient ruins”, in Beijing Today, number 271, →ISSN, →OCLC, Travel China, page 20, column 22 more examples
The Movie-TV Center is situated at Zhenbeipu. This place was formerly an important strategic stronghold on the frontier, it has been kept in its natural and undeveloped state making it a prime location for outdoor film settings of ancient China's Western regions.
2002 October, “A Trip to Ningxia”, in Traveling the Silk Road in China, Xinjiang People's Publishing House (新疆人民出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47I even found it difficult to walk up the stairs at the Gulous Restraunt in Yincuan^([sic – meaning Yinchuan]). So I decided to stay on level ground and visit Zhenbeipu fortress.[…] Leaving boisterous Zhenbeipu, we headed west. The road climbed uphill some 10 km as we moved over the alluvial plain created by the glaciers of the Helan Mountains.
2007, China Tourism, numbers 307-309, →OCLC, pages 125–126
Origin
- Mandarin鎮北堡 /镇北堡
- EnglishZhenbeipu
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鎮北堡 /镇北堡.
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 鎮北堡 /镇北堡
- 鎮北堡 /镇北堡town
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Zhenbeipu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zhenbeipu
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