Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pingshun

/pɪŋ.ʃʌn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ping-shun
IPA: /pɪŋ.ʃʌn/

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

From Mandarin 平順 /平顺 (Píngshùn).

Word Breakdown

Root: 平順

Inflected Forms

P'ing-shun (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce pingshun?: The recorded pronunciation is /pɪŋ.ʃʌn/.
What does pingshun mean?: A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
Where does pingshun come from?: From Mandarin 平順 /平顺 (Píngshùn).

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