Beipiao

See also: běipiāo and Běipiào

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北票 (Běipiào).

Proper noun

Beipiao

1. A county-level city in Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.
   • [1955, George B. Cressey, Land of the 500 Million: A Geography of China‎^[1], McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 135, 167, 309:

     Jehol has a one-million-ton mine at Peipiao and a new open-cut mine at Fuhsin with a five-million-ton capacity. […]
     Dairen is a smaller center, as are the coal-mining areas around Penchi, Fuhsin, and Peipiao. […]
     Coal is also produced in eastern Jehol at Peipiao, and at the new open-cut mine at Fuhsin, 110 miles west of Mukden, where a 60 to 70-meter seam of coal lies beneath a 20-meter overburden.]

   • 2004 October 14, “Dinosaur Fossil Found In Sleeping Position”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 September 2023, Findings‎^[3]:

     Dubbed Mei long, which means "soundly sleeping dragon" in Chinese, the dinosaur was about 21 inches long, or about the size of a large bird. Several features indicate its avian origins.
     The sleeping skeleton was found near Beipiao City in Liaoning Province.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 北票 (zh) (Běipiào)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Beipiao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 360, column 2