Pidu

See also: pidu

English

Alternative forms

• P'i-tu (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 郫都 (Pídū).

Proper noun

Pidu

1. A district of Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
   • 2020, Bo Qin, Jian Yang, “Access of Low-Income Residents to Urban Services for Inclusive Development: The Case of Chengdu, China”, in Shabbir Cheema, editor, Governance for Urban Services: Access, Participation, Accountability, and Transparency‎^[1], Springer, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 220:

     Linwan neighborhood is located in the Pidu district, a suburban district in Chengdu. In 2017, the GDP of Pidu district was 52.5 billion yuan, ranking the 10th among 22 district and counties in Chengdu.

   • 2021 July 15, Gao Feng, “Police in China's Sichuan Formally Arrest Veteran Rights Activist”, in Radio Free Asia‎^[2], archived from the original on 15 July 2021:

     Second dissident prosecuted
     Meanwhile, authorities in Chengdu's Pidu district have moved ahead with the prosecution of veteran dissident Chen Yunfei, who was detained by police four months ago on the same charge as Xie.
     Chen is currently being held at the Pidu District Detention Center, awaiting trial for "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble" after he wrote an online article based on visits to Sichuan schools during the past two years.

   • 2022, Artificial Intelligence in China‎^[3], →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 410:

     Pidu District of Chengdu is located in the central part of the Western Sichuan Plain, which is a national demonstration area for rural revitalization, and the "rural new community Pidu model" has been extended to the whole Western Sichuan Plain.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pidu.

Synonyms

• (historical) Pi

Translations

district in southwestern China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 郫都 (Pídū)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Dipu