Pingtungとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• P'ing-tung, Ping Tung (also from Wade–Giles)
• Pingdong (Hanyu Pinyin)

語源

c. 1940s, from Wade–Giles romanization of Chinese 屏東 (Píngdōng) Wade-Giles romanization: Pʻing²-tung¹.

発音

• enPR: pǐngʹdo͞ongʹ

固有名詞

Pingtung

1. A county in southern Taiwan.
   • 1953 February 9, Harold Lavine, “Chiang's Troops: They Are Rarin' to Fight Back”, in Newsweek‎, volume XLI, number 6, page 33:

     Another obvious deficiency of the Nationalists is their lack of understanding of the importance of maintaining equipment. They're great at repairing equipment, but they also have a talent for wrecking it. At the Pingtung air base is a hangar full of airplane engines, 101 of them at last count. They haven't run a mile, and they are rotten with rust.

   • 1972, The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State (Foreign Relations of the United States 1947)‎, volume 7, numbers 894A.00/11-447, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 468:

     Following article was published in Central News Agency's English Bulletin of October 28, 1947:
     "President of the Executive Yuan, Chang Chun, returned to the capital at 2:50 this afternoon from Taiwan, after having taken off from Pingtung, Taiwan at 10:40 in the morning.

   • 1983 January 30, “Aboriginal cultural park”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XXIV, number 5, Taipei, page 2:

     The Taiwan Provincial Government has decided to spend US$6.4 million in three years starting this fiscal year to build a tourist recreation park near Fuku Bay in Pingtung county in Southern Taiwan.

   • 2009 October 18, “Fire sail in Taiwan”, in The Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 August 2023‎:

     Villagers and tourists watch as a wooden boat is engulfed by flames during a traditional ceremony in Pingtung county, Taiwan, yesterday to celebrate the end of the eight-day Donggang Wang Ye festival.

   • 2014, Ed Lin, Ghost Month‎, Soho Press, →ISBN, page 207:

     "This is really a genuine Paiwan outfit?" I asked.
     "Absolutely," said Jenny. "The gods smile upon anyone who wears this. That's why it feels so uncomfortable. They feel your suffering and your sacrifice."
     "It hurts, all right," said Nancy.
     "It's painful to look at, too!" I said. Nancy slapped my shoulder.
     "It's the real thing," said the girl with the innocent face. "I'm from Pingtung. My grandmother was part Paiwan."

   • 2017 July 31, Russell Goldman, “On Heels of Typhoon Nesat, a Second Storm Hits Taiwan”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 August 2017, Asia Pacific‎:

     A family walked through floodwaters in Pingtung County in southern Taiwan on Saturday, as Typhoon Nesat drenched the island.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pingtung.
2. A city in and the administrative seat of Pingtung County, Taiwan.
   • 1998, Linda Chao, Ramon H. Myers, The First Chinese Democracy‎, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85:

     Under Japanese colonial rule, Pingtung city and its environs had been famous for anti-Japanese activities. After retrocession, the KMT local cadres used local factions to establish their influence and control.

   • 2022 August 6, “Taiwan says China's military drills a 'possible simulated attack'”, in Deutsche Welle‎, archived from the original on 6 August 2022‎:

     Ou Yang Li-hsing, deputy head of the military-owned National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, was in the southern city of Pingtung on a work trip.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pingtung.

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pingtung or P’ing-tung”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1476, column 2: “Jap. Heito […] Until 1920, called Akow (Jap. [Japanese] Ako).”
• “Pingtung, P'ing-tung, Ping-tung, Pingdong”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer

発音

• enPR: pǐngʹdo͞ongʹ

固有名詞

P'ing-tung

1. Alternative form of Pingtung.
   • 1966 December, “Taiwan”, in Alice Taylor, editor, Focus‎, volume 17, number 4, American Geographical Society, page 4:

     The hilly, mixed crop and forest land produces tea and citronella in the north and bananas and pineapples in the central and southern parts of the island. In the P'ing-tung section of this region some rice is grown, and also bananas, sweet potatoes, soy beans, jute, and millet, but the main crop is sisal.

   • 1968, “P'ING-TUNG (Japanese HEITO)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1092, column 2:

     P'ing-tung was settled nearly 200 years ago and thus did not benefit from city planning under the Japanese administration (1895-1945). It is a typical market town with numerous light industries including rattan weaving, small machine shops and woodworking shops. A military airbase is located nearby. It serves as the seat of the P'ing-tung hsien (country) government.

   • 1979, “Baseball”, in The 1979 Compton Yearbook‎, F. E. Compton, page 43:

     In the original series, played at Williamsport, Pa., Taiwan won its seventh world championship in ten years. A team from P'ing-tung, a small village in southern Taiwan, beat the U.S. West champs, the San Ramon Valley Little Leaguers of Danville, Calif., 11-1 in the final game.

   • 1980, Arthur P. Wolf, Chieh-shan Huang, Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945‎, Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 318:

     Before beginning his more recent work in Chung-she, Pasternak devoted a year to a study of Ta-t’ieh, a Hakka-speaking community located at the southern end of the coastal plain, 15 miles south of P’ing-tung City (see Map 25.1).

   • 1999, Masaaki Yamada, Japanese Immigrant Agroforestry in the Brazilian Amazon: A Case Study of Sustainable Rural Development in the Tropics‎, →OCLC, page 174:

     In 1933, he resigned as Castanhal's manager due to his advancing age and disease, and returned to Japan. However, his passion for rice soon led him to a new farm at P'ing-tung, Taiwan, and he eventually died in 1939 at his son's rice plantation in Webster, Texas.

   • 2002 February 11, Richard Higgs, “Kemflo International Co. expanding”, in Plastics News‎, archived from the original on 23 October 2020‎:

     Privately held Kemflo International Co. Ltd. operates a 432,000-square-foot molding, tooling and assembly plant in P'ing-tung, Taiwan. […]
     The company now has 70 Taiwanese-made presses in P'ing-tung, and it has annual sales of $35 million.

   • 2006, John F. Wukovits, Tobey Maguire‎, Lucent Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 46:

     Ang Lee, who directed Tobey Maguire in 1997's The Ice Storm as well as in 1999's Ride with the Devil, has built an admirable résumé. Born in 1954 in P'ing-tung, Taiwan, Lee attended the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 before coming to the United States.

   • 2016 May 24, Amy Tikkanen, Kenneth Pletcher, “Tsai Ing-wen”, in Encyclopædia Britannica‎, archived from the original on 15 April 2017‎:

     Tsai Ing-wen, (born August 31, 1956, Fang-shan township, P’ing-tung county, Taiwan), educator and politician who was the first female president of Taiwan (2016– ).

   • 2019 December 8, “Tien Ma’s Cebu serves delectable Taiwanese cuisine”, in MyCebu.ph: Re/Discover Cebu‎, archived from the original on 22 September 2020‎:

     They follow the recipe of Tien Liyuan, who was born in 1932 the Fang-shan township of Taiwan’s P’ing-tung county.

   • 2020 February 10, Katherine Bourzac, “Climate change is destroying our coral reefs. Here’s how scientists plan to save them”, in Chemical & Engineering News‎, volume 98, number 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 August 2020:

     “If you protect the coral reef, you protect the ocean ecosystem,” says Chiahsin Lin, who works on coral preservation at the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium in P’ing-tung, Taiwan.

   • 2022 March 18, Diana K, “10 of the Most Famous Taiwanese”, in Discover Walks Blog‎, History and Facts:

     Born in 1956, Fang-shan township, P’ing-tung county, Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen is an educator and politician who was the first female president of Taiwan.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:P'ing-tung.

参照

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “P'ing-tung”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2442, column 1
• P'ing-tung, in Encyclopædia Britannica