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Pinggu

Syllables: Ping·gu/pɪŋ.ɡu/

Pinggu proper noun: a district of Beijing, China, formerly a county.

Proper noun

Pinggu

  1. A district of Beijing, China, formerly a county.
    • In the Ta-hua-shan [translating 大華山 /大华山] commune of P'ing-ku county, Peking Municipality, variety comparing experiments carried out by the Hou-pei-kung [translating 後北宮 /后北宫] brigade achieved a yield of 582.5 chin per mou, 21.4 percent more than Tanori and 8.5 percent more than Potam.[1977 August 5 [1977 January], “A Brief Introduction of Three Spring Wheat Varieties”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 389, United States Joint Publications Research Service...
    • In Pinggu, a suburb of Beijing, residents were told that they would receive 50-yuan ($7.60) prizes in cash or merchandise once they had been fully vaccinated.2021 April 5, Lily Kuo, Lyric Li, “China’s covid vaccine drive is lagging. Free food could help turn things around.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2021...

Forms of Pinggu

alternative formPingku

Origin of Pinggu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平谷 (Pínggǔ).

Questions about Pinggu

What does Pinggu mean?
Pinggu means a district of Beijing, China, formerly a county.
What part of speech is Pinggu?
Pinggu is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Pinggu?
Pinggu is pronounced /pɪŋ.ɡu/.

Words near Pinggu in the dictionary

  1. Pingels
  2. Pingeon
  3. pinger
  4. pingers
  5. Pinget
  6. Pinggu
  7. pingguite
  8. Pinghsi
  9. Pinghu
  10. Pinghua
  11. pinging

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