Jingbian

See also: Jìngbiān

English

Alternative forms

• Ching-pien (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靖邊／靖边 (Jìngbiān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.bi.æn/, /-bi.ɛn/

Proper noun

Jingbian

1. A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
   • 2005 July 18, Howard W. French, “Whose Oil Is It? Property Rights at Issue in China”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015, World‎^[2]:

     JINGBIAN, China - As a truck driver hauling crude from private wells sprouting up all over this arid countryside, Gao had a bird's-eye view of the oil boom that was sweeping this county in the 1990's. […]
     The total investment was $84,000, a princely sum in northern Shaanxi Province, a hardscrabble moonscape of dusty, yellow-earth hills at the edge of the Gobi Desert. […]
     Mr. Zhu's wife said he was formally arrested on June 22, after weeks of detention in Jingbian, during which the authorities denied holding him.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 靖邊／靖边 (zh) (Jìngbiān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jingbian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1450, column 2

Anagrams

• jianbing