Ping'an
Syllables: Ping·an/ˈpɪŋˌɑn/
Ping'an proper noun: a district of Haidong, Qinghai, China, formerly a county.
Proper noun
Ping'an
- A district of Haidong, Qinghai, China, formerly a county.
- The move-in area is one of the last, largely unsettled areas of Qinghai suitable for irrigated agriculture. The economic benefits touted by the WB for the project were largely undisputed. Crop yields near the move-in area were already three to four times higher than those in the move-out area, and...2006 November, Barry Sautman, “Tibet and the (Mis-) Representation of Cultural Genocide”, in Barry Sautman, editor, Cultural Genocide and Asian State Peripheries, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC...
- The pagoda, near the farmhouse where the Dalai Lama was born in 1935, is in Hongyagou, or Red Cliff Village, in Pingan county, more than 80km southeast of Xining, the capital of Qinghai province.[2009 February 26, “Pagoda marks home of the Dalai Lama”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2023
Origin of Ping'an
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平安 (Píng'ān).
Questions about Ping'an
- What does Ping'an mean?
- Ping'an means a district of Haidong, Qinghai, China, formerly a county.
- What part of speech is Ping'an?
- Ping'an is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Ping'an?
- Ping'an is pronounced /ˈpɪŋˌɑn/.
Words near Ping'an in the dictionary
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