Pinggu

See also: pínggū

English

Alternative forms

• Pingku (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平谷 (Pínggǔ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪŋ.ɡu/, enPR: pǐngʹgo͞oʹ

Proper noun

Pinggu

1. A district of Beijing, China, formerly a county.
   • 2021 April 5, Lily Kuo, Lyric Li, “China’s covid vaccine drive is lagging. Free food could help turn things around.”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 April 2021, Asia & Pacific‎^[3]:

     In Pinggu, a suburb of Beijing, residents were told that they would receive 50-yuan ($7.60) prizes in cash or merchandise once they had been fully vaccinated.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平谷 (zh) (Pínggǔ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Manchu: ᡦᡳᠩ
  ᡤᡠ (ping gu)

Further reading

• Pinggu, P'ing-ku, Ping-ku at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pinggu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2441, column 2