Ping Tung
See also: Pingtung and P'ing-tung
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 屏東 (Píng Dōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing² Tung¹.
Proper noun
Ping Tung
- Alternative form of Pingtung
- 1967, Chen Kang Chai, Taiwan Aborigines: A Genetic Study of Tribal Variations, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, LCCN 67-10903, OCLC 857078899, OL 5534337M, page 36:
- The Puyumas, a small, rather civilized tribe, live together with native Chinese in many villages around the city of Ping Tung.
- 1993 September, Paul A. Forbes, Using a Wargame to Explore the Effects of the Information Content of Messages on CVBG Anti-Air Warfare Defense, Naval Postgraduate School, OCLC 640608474, OL 25494714M, page 53:
- After securing Ping Tung, Taiwan and Batan island regular air patrols have resumed. It has been noted that increasing ground activity was occurring around daybreak.
- 2009, Billy Ray Wilson, Enough is Enough, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, LCCN 2009913000, OCLC 630561226, OL 31886842M, pages 122-123:
- My duty assignment was[...]Tasked the Wing’s Squadrons to provide aircrew members for ferry missions to the United States and Ping Tung, Taiwan.[...]Regarding the ferry missions to Ping Tung, Taiwan. The 3rd wing had one squadron of T-38 (F-5s) called the Aggressor Squadron.[...]The reason for the flights to Ping Tung was the contractor's location that painted the aircraft to soviet specifications.
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Translations
Pingtung — see Pingtung
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