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Pingtan

Syllables: Ping·tan

Pingtan proper noun: the largest island of Fujian, China.

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
    • Peiping radio said a U.S. Navy aircraft violated Chinese Communist air space over Pingtan and White Dog islands off the coastal province of Fukien Sunday and added that a Red foreign ministry spokesman was "authorized to issue its 58th serious warning against the intrusion."1959 July 20, “U.S. Plane Accused Of Air Violation”, in The Cumberland News, volume 21, number 239, Cumberland, Maryland, sourced from Tokyo (AP), page 1, column 8
  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
    • China held live-fire military drills in the Taiwan Strait on Saturday as U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepared to arrive in Asia. The exercises took place off the coast of Fujian province opposite Taiwan. A warning issued by the local maritime safety agency said the drills would be conducted...2022 July 30, “A roundup of news from around the world.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2022, National
  3. A town in Huiyang district, Huizhou, Guangdong, China.

Examples of Pingtan in a sentence

  • The author went to Tungchu on 20 March, just two days after the PLA manoeuvres started on Pingtan Island.1997, Greg Austin, Missile Diplomacy and Taiwan's Future: Innovations in Politics and Military Power, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre...
  • The 1.1 billion yuan ($152 million) sea bridge will connect Pingtan Island, located in the Taiwan Strait, to Fuqing, a city on the main landmass of eastern Fujian Province, Xinhua said.2007 October 13, “China to build sea bridge to 5th-largest island”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2022, World News:
  • Later Thursday, images showed military helicopters flying past Pingtan island, one of Taiwan's closest points to mainland China.2022 August 4, Brad Lendon, “China fires missiles near Taiwan in live-fire drills as PLA encircles island”, in CNN, archived from the...
  • The other sending community is Pingtan County, located east of Fuqin City.1999, Ko-lin Chin, Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN...

Forms of Pingtan

alternative formPing-tan
alternative formP'ing-t'an

Origin of Pingtan

From the Mandarin 平潭 (Píngtán).

Questions about Pingtan

What does Pingtan mean?
Pingtan means the largest island of Fujian, China.
How do you use Pingtan in a sentence?
The author went to Tungchu on 20 March, just two days after the PLA manoeuvres started on Pingtan Island.
What part of speech is Pingtan?
Pingtan is a proper noun.

Words near Pingtan in the dictionary

  1. Pingshan
  2. Pingshun
  3. Pingsi
  4. Pingster
  5. Pingstone
  6. Pingtan
  7. Pingtang
  8. Pingting
  9. Pingtingshan
  10. Pingtung
  11. pinguecula

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