P'ing-jang

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Pingrang (Pyongyang) alt-of, alternative, rare

    "Next, the Chinese text says that they set forth from the district of Lo-lang, which is situated not in Leao-tung, but in Corea, and of which the capital is the present city of Pʽing-jang (in d’Auville’s map, Ping-yang), situated upon the northern bank of the Ta-tʽung-kiang, or Pʽai-shue, a river of the province of Pʽing-ngan, which, in great part, in the time of the dynasty of Han, formed the district of Lo-lang."

Etymology

From Mandarin 平壤 (Píngrǎng), Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-jang³.

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