Pingcheng

See also: Píngchéng

English

Alternative forms

• P'ing-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 平城 (Píngchéng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪŋ.t͡ʃɛŋ/, /-t͡ʃʌŋ/, enPR: pǐngʹchǔngʹ

Proper noun

Pingcheng

1. A district of Datong, Shanxi, China.
   • 1970, René Grousset, translated by Naomi Walford, The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia‎^[1], New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127:

     The founder of the Han dynasty, the emperor Kao-ti, hastened to the scene, drove back the Hsiung-nu, but was then blockaded by them on the Paiteng plateau near Pingcheng, in the present-day district of Tatung, on the frontiers of Shansi.

   • 2020 October 10, Jiede Su, “In Datong, a Crumbling Legacy of China’s Most Extreme Urban Makeover”, in Sixth Tone‎^[2], archived from the original on 11 October 2020‎^[3]:

     Located about 250 kilometers west of Beijing, Datong is a small city by Chinese standards: Currently, Pingcheng District, which covers most of Datong proper, has 807,000 residents. But the city’s people could take pride in Datong’s rich coal seams and richer history.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平城 (zh) (Píngchéng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can