Pingxiang
/pɪŋˈʃjɑːŋ/noun
A romanized Chinese place name, most commonly referring in English to Pingxiang, a city in Jiangxi Province, China.
Did you know?The spelling “Pingxiang” is ambiguous without Chinese characters: 萍乡 is the Jiangxi city, while 凭祥 is a separate city in Guangxi near Vietnam.
Etymological Timeline
Old Chinese
Old Chinese
萍
“Duckweed or floating aquatic plants”
Old Chinese
Old Chinese
鄉
“A rural settlement, district, or home community”
Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese
萍鄉
“The written form corresponding to the place name Pingxiang”
20th Century
Mandarin Chinese
萍乡
“The simplified-Chinese form of the Jiangxi place name”
Modern English
English
Pingxiang
“The established pinyin romanization of Chinese place names, especially the city in Jiangxi”