Xingping
See also: xìngpíng
English
editEtymology
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 興平/兴平 (Xīngpíng).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editXingping
- A county-level city in Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
- 2004 July 18, “Flooding swamps many provinces, and more to come”, in South China Morning Post[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-14[3]:
- On 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.
- 2011, Li Xianyao, Luo Zhewen, China's Museums[4], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 120:
- Maoling is located in Xingping City, Shaanxi Province, and is the tomb of the Han Emperor Wudi (also known as Liu Che).
Translations
editcounty-level city
Further reading
edit- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xingping”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3503, column 2
- Xingping, Hsingping, Hsing-ping, Hsing-p'ing at Google Ngram Viewer
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