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Pingku

Pingku is the alternative form of Pinggu.

Meaning of Pinggu

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...

Origin of Pingku

From Mandarin 平谷 (Pínggǔ) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-ku³.

Questions about Pingku

What is Pingku the alternative form of?
Pingku is the alternative form of Pinggu.

Words near Pingku in the dictionary

  1. pingingly
  2. pingings
  3. Pingjang
  4. Pingjhen
  5. Pingju
  6. Pingku
  7. pingle
  8. pingled
  9. pingler
  10. pinglers
  11. pingles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pingku (page history and authors); Pinggu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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