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P'ing-jang

P'ing-jang is the alternative form of Pingrang.

Meaning of Pingrang

Proper noun

Pingrang

  1. (rare) Synonym of Pyongyang: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name (capital city of North Korea).
    • When the Japanese armies captured Pingrang on 15th September, they discovered that 35 good field guns were left behind, together with hundreds of magazine rifles and hundreds more of breechloaders. The amount of ammunition captured was also enormous.⁴⁷ If the spoils were already so substantial, the...1996 October, Allen Fung, “Testing the Self-Strengthening: The Chinese Army in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895”, in Modern Asian Studies, volume 30, number 4, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 1017...
    Synonyms:
    Pyongyang

Origin of P'ing-jang

From Mandarin 平壤 (Píngrǎng), Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-jang³.

Questions about P'ing-jang

What is P'ing-jang the alternative form of?
P'ing-jang is the alternative form of Pingrang.

Words near P'ing-jang in the dictionary

  1. P'i Hsien
  2. p'i-p'a
  3. P'i-shan
  4. P'ien-kuan
  5. p'in-yin
  6. P'ing-jang
  7. P'ing-lu
  8. P'ing-shun
  9. P'ing-t'an
  10. P'ing-ting
  11. P'ing-ting-shan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: P'ing-jang (page history and authors); Pingrang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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