Pinggu

See also: pínggū

English

Alternative forms

Pingku (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平谷 (Pínggǔ).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɪŋ.ɡu/, enPR: pǐngʹgo͞oʹ[1]

Proper noun

Pinggu

A district of Beijing, China, formerly a county.
- 2021 April 5, Lily Kuo, Lyric Li, “China’s covid vaccine drive is lagging. Free food could help turn things around.”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 April 2021, Asia & Pacific‎:
  In Pinggu, a suburb of Beijing, residents were told that they would receive 50-yuan ($7.60) prizes in cash or merchandise once they had been fully vaccinated.

Translations

district

Chinese:
Mandarin: 平谷 (zh) (Pínggǔ)
Japanese: please add this translation if you can

References

Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pingku or P’ing-ku”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1476, column 1

Further reading

Pinggu, P'ing-ku, Ping-ku at Google Ngram Viewer
Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pinggu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2441, column 2

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