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P'ing-t'an

P'ing-t'an is the alternative form of Pingtan.

Meaning of Pingtan

Proper noun

Pingtan

  1. The largest island of Fujian, China.
    • The shipwrecked group travelled by junk next day to Pingtan Island and four days later sailed to Hongkong.1957 March 15, “Shipwrecked”, in Peace News, number 1081, page 2
  2. A county of Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
    • Although some Fuqin City residents have managed to go to the United States illegally, most have chosen to go to Japan, also illegally (Gu 1993). The other sending community is Pingtan County, located east of Fuqin City. Many of its residents have illegally immigrated to Taiwan, which is only about...1999, Ko-lin Chin, Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 13
  3. A town in Huiyang district, Huizhou, Guangdong, China.

Origin of P'ing-t'an

From Mandarin 平潭 (Píngtán), Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-tʻan².

Questions about P'ing-t'an

What is P'ing-t'an the alternative form of?
P'ing-t'an is the alternative form of Pingtan.

Words near P'ing-t'an in the dictionary

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

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