Pingtung

See also: P'ing-tung and Ping Tung

English

Alternative forms

• P'ing-tung, Ping Tung (also from Wade–Giles)
• Pingdong (Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

c. 1940s, from Wade–Giles romanization of Chinese 屏東 (Píngdōng) Wade-Giles romanization: Pʻing²-tung¹.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pǐngʹdo͞ongʹ

Proper noun

Pingtung

1. A county in southern Taiwan
   • 1953 February 9, Harold Lavine, “Chiang's Troops: They Are Rarin' to Fight Back”, in Newsweek‎^[1], volume XLI, number 6, page 33:

     Another obvious deficiency of the Nationalists is their lack of understanding of the importance of maintaining equipment. They're great at repairing equipment, but they also have a talent for wrecking it. At the Pingtung air base is a hangar full of airplane engines, 101 of them at last count. They haven't run a mile, and they are rotten with rust.

   • 1972, The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State (Foreign Relations of the United States 1947)‎^[2], volume 7, numbers 894A.00/11-447, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 468:

     Following article was published in Central News Agency's English Bulletin of October 28, 1947:
     "President of the Executive Yuan, Chang Chun, returned to the capital at 2:50 this afternoon from Taiwan, after having taken off from Pingtung, Taiwan at 10:40 in the morning.

   • 1983 January 30, “Aboriginal cultural park”, in Free China Weekly‎^[3], volume XXIV, number 5, Taipei, page 2:

     The Taiwan Provincial Government has decided to spend US$6.4 million in three years starting this fiscal year to build a tourist recreation park near Fuku Bay in Pingtung county in Southern Taiwan.

   • 2009 October 18, “Fire sail in Taiwan”, in The Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 August 2023‎^[5]:

     Villagers and tourists watch as a wooden boat is engulfed by flames during a traditional ceremony in Pingtung county, Taiwan, yesterday to celebrate the end of the eight-day Donggang Wang Ye festival.

   • 2014, Ed Lin, Ghost Month‎^[6], Soho Press, →ISBN, page 207:

     "This is really a genuine Paiwan outfit?" I asked.
     "Absolutely," said Jenny. "The gods smile upon anyone who wears this. That's why it feels so uncomfortable. They feel your suffering and your sacrifice."
     "It hurts, all right," said Nancy.
     "It's painful to look at, too!" I said. Nancy slapped my shoulder.
     "It's the real thing," said the girl with the innocent face. "I'm from Pingtung. My grandmother was part Paiwan."

   • 2017 July 31, Russell Goldman, “On Heels of Typhoon Nesat, a Second Storm Hits Taiwan”, in The New York Times‎^[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 August 2017, Asia Pacific‎^[8]:

     A family walked through floodwaters in Pingtung County in southern Taiwan on Saturday, as Typhoon Nesat drenched the island.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pingtung.
2. A city in and the administrative seat of Pingtung County, Taiwan
   • 1998, Linda Chao, Ramon H. Myers, The First Chinese Democracy‎^[9], Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85:

     Under Japanese colonial rule, Pingtung city and its environs had been famous for anti-Japanese activities. After retrocession, the KMT local cadres used local factions to establish their influence and control.

   • 2022 August 6, “Taiwan says China's military drills a 'possible simulated attack'”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[10], archived from the original on 2022-08-06‎^[11]:

     Ou Yang Li-hsing, deputy head of the military-owned National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, was in the southern city of Pingtung on a work trip.

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

Translations

county in southern Taiwan; city in southern Taiwan

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 屏東 / 屏东 (ping⁴ dung¹)

  Mandarin: 屏東 / 屏东 (zh) (Píngdōng)

• Japanese: 屏東 (へいとう, Heitō)

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pingtung or P’ing-tung”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[12], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1476, column 2: “Jap. Heito […] Until 1920, called Akow (Jap. Ako).”
• Pingtung, P'ing-tung, Ping-tung, Pingdong at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Wade–Giles romanization of Chinese 屏東 (Píngdōng) Wade-Giles romanization: Pʻing²-tung¹.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piŋ.tuŋ/

Proper noun

Pingtung ?

1. Pingtung (a county of Taiwan)