Pingtan

See also: píngtǎn and Píngtán

English

Alternative forms

• Ping-tan, P'ing-t'an (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Mandarin 平潭 (Píngtán).

Proper noun

Pingtan

1. The largest island in Fujian, China
   • 1957 March 15, “Shipwrecked”, in Peace News‎^[1], number 1081, page 2:

     The shipwrecked group travelled by junk next day to Pingtan Island and four days later sailed to Hongkong.

   • 1959 July 20, “U.S. Plane Accused Of Air Violation”, in The Cumberland News‎^[2], volume 21, number 239, Cumberland, Maryland, sourced from Tokyo (AP), page 1, column 8:

     Peiping radio said a U.S. Navy aircraft violated Chinese Communist air space over Pingtan and White Dog islands off the coastal province of Fukien Sunday and added that a Red foreign ministry spokesman was "authorized to issue its 58th serious warning against the intrusion."

   • 1996 March 21 [1996 March 18], He Jixiong (0149 2623 7160) [何机雄], “There Is a Feeling of Insecurity on Jinmen, Mazu, and Other Islands”, in Daily Report: China, number 96-056, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Hong Kong ZHONGGUO TONGXUNSHE, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 75, column 2:

     The Chinese military today began a third round of military exercises in waters near Fujian's Pingtan Dao, causing a feeling of insecurity on Wuqiu [Wuchiu], Jinmen [Kinmen], and Mazu [Matsu] that are garrisoned by Taiwan troops.

   • 1997, Greg Austin, Missile Diplomacy and Taiwan's Future: Innovations in Politics and Military Power‎^[3], Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 14:

     The author went to Tungchu on 20 March, just two days after the PLA manoeuvres started on Pingtan Island. Though two-thirds of the civilian population had provisionally left Tungchu, the atmosphere was relaxed and, in the five hours spent there, the author was able to hear the remote sound of PRC guns just […]

   • 2007 October 13, “China to build sea bridge to 5th-largest island”, in Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 15 June 2022, World News:

     The 1.1 billion yuan ($152 million) sea bridge will connect Pingtan Island, located in the Taiwan Strait, to Fuqing, a city on the main landmass of eastern Fujian Province, Xinhua said.

   • 2022 August 4, Brad Lendon, “China fires missiles near Taiwan in live-fire drills as PLA encircles island”, in CNN‎^[5], archived from the original on 04 August 2022:

     Chinese state media said that exercises to simulate an air and sea "blockade" around Taiwan had started Wednesday, but offered little solid evidence to back up the claim. Later Thursday, images showed military helicopters flying past Pingtan island, one of Taiwan's closest points to mainland China.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pingtan.
2. A county of Fuzhou, Fujian, China
   • 1999, Ko-lin Chin, Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States‎^[6], Philadelphia: Temple University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 13:

     Although some Fuqin City residents have managed to go to the United States illegally, most have chosen to go to Japan, also illegally (Gu 1993). The other sending community is Pingtan County, located east of Fuqin City. Many of its residents have illegally immigrated to Taiwan, which is only about seventy sea miles away (Chang 1995).

   • 2022 July 30, “A roundup of news from around the world.”, in The Washington Post‎^[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 August 2022, National‎^[8]:

     China held live-fire military drills in the Taiwan Strait on Saturday as U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepared to arrive in Asia. The exercises took place off the coast of Fujian province opposite Taiwan. A warning issued by the local maritime safety agency said the drills would be conducted near Pingtan, a county about 80 miles from Hsinchu city across the strait in northwestern Taiwan.

3. A town in Huiyang district, Huizhou, Guangdong, China

Translations

island, county, town

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平潭 (zh) (Píngtán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Pingtan, P'ing-t'an, Ping-tan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pingtan Island”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2442, column 1

Anagrams

• Panting, panting