Pingchen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 平鎮 (Píngzhèn) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-chên⁴.

Proper noun

Pingchen

1. Alternative form of Pingzhen
   • 1979, 新聞英語閱讀指導‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 406:

     The blast, which could be heard 5 kilometers away, occurred around 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 1 at Pingchen, Taoyuan County.

   • 2001, Epidemiology Bulletin‎^[2], volume 17, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 87:

     S. sonnei isolates collected from Pingchen city and Pateh city of Taoyuan county were of pattern 1; those from the primary schools, kindergartens and factories of Lungtan township, Taoyuan county, were of pattern II.

   • 2008, M.J. Warsi, editor, Linguistic Dynamism in South Asia‎^[3], Gyan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 61:

     Financially sponsored by MOE (Ministry of Education), Yi-hsing Elementary School, in Pingchen County City, Tao-yuan, offers foreign brides courses of 'Classes for Adjustment and Growth for Foreign Brides' for four years, teaching Mandarin phonetic symbols, sentence making, literacy, and newspaper reading, communication with spouse, parents and children, as well as among in-laws, and understanding traffic signs (United Daily News, October 6, 2004:B2).

   • 2008 July 17, Rich Chang, “Two soldiers die as helicopter crashes into building”, in Taipei Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 August 2008, Front Page, page 1‎^[5]:

     An army press statement said the helicopter took off at 9:38am from its base in Lungtan to perform a routine training mission around the Lungtan and Pingchen Township (平鎮) area.

   • 2018 June 20, Renée Salmonsen, “Taiwanese police arrest dealer in Taoyuan's largest ketamine bust”, in Taiwan News‎^[6], archived from the original on 20 June 2018, Society‎^[7]:

     Taoyuan Police Department's Pingchen City Police Chief, Chang Ren-ching (張仁慶), said that the police received a tip half a month ago that 49-year-old Pan was selling ketamine in karaoke bars and hotels around southern Taoyuan, reported CNA.

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

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pingchen or P'ing-chen”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1475, column 3
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pingchen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2441, column 2