Lingshi
Syllables: Ling·shi/(ˈ)lɪŋˈʃi/
Lingshi proper noun: a county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
Proper noun
Lingshi
- A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
- On 28 December 1937, a force of twenty-five men led by a platoon commander was dispatched to a village in Lingshi County, Shanxi Province, for pacification activity and to scout enemy movements.1995, Tanaka Norio, “A Memorial to Three War Buddies”, in Beth Cary, transl., edited by Frank Gibney, Sensō: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 78
- Rescuers prepare to go down a coal mine at Nanshan Colliery in Lingshi county, China, November 15, 2006. Chinese police are investigating the death of a reporter beaten up while probing the country's deadly coal mines, media reported on Wednesday amid a growing outcry.2007 January 21, Chris Buckley, Guo Shipeng, Vivi Lin, “China outcry grows over beating death of reporter”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 13 May 2022, World News
Forms of Lingshi
| alternative form | Ling-shih |
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Origin of Lingshi
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靈石 /灵石.
Questions about Lingshi
- What does Lingshi mean?
- Lingshi means a county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
- What part of speech is Lingshi?
- Lingshi is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Lingshi?
- Lingshi is pronounced /(ˈ)lɪŋˈʃi/.
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