pinggu

/pɪŋ.ɡu/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"In the Ta-hua-shan [translating 大華山 /大华山] commune of P'ing-ku county, Peking Municipality, variety comparing experiments carried out by the Hou-pei-kung [translating 後北宮 /后北宫] brigade achieved a yield of 582.5 chin per mou, 21.4 percent more than Tanori and 8.5 percent more than Potam."
"In Pinggu, a suburb of Beijing, residents were told that they would receive 50-yuan ($7.60) prizes in cash or merchandise once they had been fully vaccinated."

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平谷 (Pínggǔ).

Pingku (alternative)

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How do you pronounce pinggu?

The recorded pronunciation is /pɪŋ.ɡu/.

What does pinggu mean?

A district of Beijing, China, formerly a county.

Where does pinggu come from?

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平谷 (Pínggǔ).

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