Meanings
alternative En-p'ing
- A county-level city and former county of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
Kwangchow to Enping It was an early spring morning in 1968 when we left Canton city and, cutting across the Pearl river delta, went west to visit the county town of Enping.
Travels in China, 1966-71
1973, Rewi Alley, 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 3351 more example
In fact, the Miss China contest nearly did not happen, after officials in the southern city of Enping raided the auditorium.[…] To comply, he scheduled the Miss China pageant in the obscure city of Enping in Guangdong Province, without much publicity.
2002 July 16, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Beijing Journal; Here She Comes! (Will China Ever Be the Same?)”, in The New York Times (World section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA county-level city and former county of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
Origin
From Mandarin 恩平 (Ēnpíng).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 恩平
- 恩平 (jan¹ ping⁴)city
Chinese Mandarin 恩平
- 恩平 (Ēnpíng)city
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Enping. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Enping
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