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Pengshui

Syllables: Peng·shui

Pengshui proper noun: a Miao and Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing, China.

Proper noun

Pengshui

  1. A Miao and Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
    • Kweiyang is said to have fallen November 14 as did Pengshui in southeast Szechuan to inferior Communist forces.1949 November 15, Strong, “The Chargé in China (Strong) to the Secretary of State”, in Foreign Relations of the United States 1949, volume VII, Chungking: Government Printing Office, published 1978...
    • In August 2006, Qin Zhongfei, a clerk in the Personnel Department of the Education Committee of the Pengshui County government, in the municipality of Chongqing, wrote a poem set to the rhyming scheme of “Springtime Seeping through a Fragrant Garden” in which he satirized county officials.2012 [2008 February 19], Xiaobo Liu, “Imprisoning People for Words and the Power of Public Opinion”, in Louisa Chiang, transl., No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems, Belknap Press, →ISBN...

Forms of Pengshui

alternative formP'eng-shui

Origin of Pengshui

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 彭水 (Péngshuǐ).

Questions about Pengshui

What does Pengshui mean?
Pengshui means a Miao and Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
What part of speech is Pengshui?
Pengshui is a proper noun.

Words near Pengshui in the dictionary

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  3. pengos
  4. PEngs
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  9. penguin diagram
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  11. penguin suit

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