Pingshun

See also: píngshùn

English

Alternative forms

• P'ing-shun (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 平順 / 平顺 (Píngshùn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪŋ.ʃʌn/, /-ʃun/, enPR: pǐngʹsho͝onʹ

Proper noun

Pingshun

1. A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
   • 1945, Paul E. Adolph, “A Magistrate Calls the Doctor”, in Surgery Speaks to China: The Experiences of a Medical Missionary to China in Peace and in War‎^[2], China Inland Mission, →OCLC, page 13:

     There stood a man with two horses. His story was that he had been sent by his master, who was none other than the magistrate of Pingshun County, the night before and had traveled all night over the mountains to come and get us to go and take care of the magistrate’s wife who had been in labor, unable to deliver, for two whole days.[...]
     The fact is that we had been hoping and praying for some months that our missionaries might find an opening into the County of Pingshun, about thirty-five miles to the east of Luan in Shansi, province of North China.

   • 1989, Issues & Studies‎^[3], volume 25, numbers 7-12, Institute of International Relations, ROC (中華民國國際關係研究所), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 125:

     Liu Pin-yen was named as the number one rightist on the China Youth Daily and in 1958 he was sent to Pingshun County in Shansi Province for labor reform.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pingshun.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平順 / 平顺 (zh) (Píngshùn)

• Japanese: 平順 (へいじゅん, Heijun)

Further reading

• Pingshun, P'ing-shun, Ping-shun at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pingshun”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2442, column 1