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P'ing-shun

P'ing-shun is the alternative form of Pingshun.

Meaning of Pingshun

Proper noun

Pingshun

  1. A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
    • There stood a man with two horses. His story was that he had been sent by his master, who was none other than the magistrate of Pingshun County, the night before and had traveled all night over the mountains to come and get us to go and take care of the magistrate’s wife who had been in labor...
    • The fact is that we had been hoping and praying for some months that our missionaries might find an opening into the County of Pingshun, about thirty-five miles to the east of Luan in Shansi, province of North China.1945, Paul E. Adolph, “A Magistrate Calls the Doctor”, in Surgery Speaks to China: The Experiences of a Medical Missionary to China in Peace and in War, China Inland Mission, →OCLC, page 13

Origin of P'ing-shun

From Mandarin 平順 /平顺 (Píngshùn) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-shun⁴.

Questions about P'ing-shun

What is P'ing-shun the alternative form of?
P'ing-shun is the alternative form of Pingshun.

Words near P'ing-shun in the dictionary

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

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