Pingxiang

See also: Píngxiāng and Píngxiáng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萍鄉／萍乡 (Píngxiāng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pǐngʹshyängʹ

Proper noun

Pingxiang

1. A prefecture-level city in Jiangxi, China.
   • 2012 September 3, “China: Deadly Blast at Coal Mine”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 September 2012, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     The official Xinhua News Agency said dozens of miners were working when the blast ripped through the Gaokeng coal mine in Pingxiang, in Jiangxi Province, on Sunday.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 萍鄉／萍乡 (zh) (Píngxiāng)

Further reading

• Pingxiang, Pinghsiang, Ping-hsiang, P'ing-hsiang at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pingxiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2442, column 1