Pingxiang
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萍鄉／萍乡 (Píngxiāng).
Proper noun
Pingxiang
- A prefecture-level city in Jiangxi, China.
- 2012 September 3, “China: Deadly Blast at Coal Mine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 September 2012, Asia Pacific:
- The official Xinhua News Agency said dozens of miners were working when the blast ripped through the Gaokeng coal mine in Pingxiang, in Jiangxi Province, on Sunday.
Further reading
- Pingxiang, Pinghsiang, Ping-hsiang, P'ing-hsiang at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pingxiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2442, column 1
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