Pienkuan
See also: P'ien-kuan
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 偏關 / 偏关 (Piānguān) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻien¹-kuan¹.
Proper noun
[edit]Pienkuan
- Alternative form of Pianguan.
- 1971 January 22 [1971 January 20], “Shansi Industrial Products”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 15, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: North Region, page F 2:
- The Pienkuan County machinery factory is now producing a powerful water pump suitable for use in water conservancy projects and for irrigation and drainage.
- 1976, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East Weekly Supplement[1], →OCLC, page 3:
- Some 60% of the labour forces in Paote, Wuchai, Fanchih, Tai, Wutai and Pienkuan Counties were engaged in the work. Agricultural captial construction is being done on 24,000 sq km in the prefecture (Taiyuan, Shansi provinicial service 2300 gmt 3 Dec 76). Pienkuan County built 22,000 mow of Tachai-type fields in the past year.