Pinghu

See also: pínghú

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 平湖 (Pínghú).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pǐngʹhǔʹ
• Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

Pinghu

1. A county-level city in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China
   • 2012 October 11, Leta Hong Fincher, “China's 'Leftover' Women”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on October 11, 2012, Opinion‎^[3]:

     This March there was a drive in Pinghu, Zhejiang Province, for “leftover women to speedily find conjugal happiness.”

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平湖 (zh) (Pínghú)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Pinghu, P'ing-hu, Ping-hu at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pinghu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2441, column 3