Bijie

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Etymology

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 畢節毕节 (Bìjié).

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Proper noun

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Bijie

  1. A prefecture-level city in Guizhou, China.
    • [1972, Oliver J. Caldwell, “The Great Earth”, in A Secret War: Americans in China, 1944-1945[2], Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 156:
      At a small city called Pichieh, there was a mission operated by German Lutheran Sisters. []
      There was a tremendous canyon beyond Pichieh. It was comparable to the gorge of the Salween on the Burma Road or the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.
      ]
    • [1978, Translations on People's Republic of China[3], numbers 439-447, Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC:
      In order to popularize the transplanting of rice seedlings with machines, Pi-chieh Prefecture held an on-the-spot meeting in Chin-sha County to publicize this method of transplanting.]
    • 2015 June 12, Edward Wong, “Chinese Premier Urges Officials to Fight Events That Led 4 Children to Drink Pesticide”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-06-13, Asia Pacific‎[5]:
      The siblings lived in a house in Guizhou Province, one of the poorest areas in China; their village, Cizhu, is under the administration of the city of Bijie.

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References

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  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pichieh”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1469, column 2

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