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Pingxi

Syllables: Ping·xi

Pingxi proper noun: a district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Proper noun

Pingxi

  1. A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
    • People release sky lanterns to celebrate the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival in Pingxi, Xinbei city, northern Taiwan, January 28, 2012. Believers gathered to release sky lanterns as a form of prayer for good luck and blessings. The tradition of releasing lanterns began during the Ching Dynasty...2012 January 28, Pichi Chuang, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2024
    • The annual sky lantern festival in northern Taiwan's Pingxi District was named by the world's largest publisher of travel guides as one of the world's 14 festivals a person must attend in their lifetime.2013 December 7, “Pingxi sky lantern festival chosen as a 'must-see before death'”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2023, Society

Forms of Pingxi

alternative formPinghsi
alternative formPingsi

Origin of Pingxi

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 平溪 (Píngxī).

Questions about Pingxi

What does Pingxi mean?
Pingxi means a district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
What part of speech is Pingxi?
Pingxi is a proper noun.

Words near Pingxi in the dictionary

  1. pinguins
  2. pinguipedid
  3. pinguipedids
  4. pinguitude
  5. Pingwu
  6. Pingxi
  7. Pingxiang
  8. pingy
  9. Pingyang
  10. pingyangmycin
  11. Pingyao

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