Baiyin

See also: báiyín, bàiyīn, and Báiyín

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 白銀／白银 (Báiyín).

Proper noun

Baiyin

  1. A prefecture-level city in Gansu, China.
    • 2018 March 30, Chris Buckley, “‘Vicious’ Killer of 11 Women Gets Death Penalty in China”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 March 2018, Asia Pacific‎:
      Thirty years after Gao Chengyong embarked on a succession of 11 rape-murders of women in northwest China, a court sentenced him to death on Friday, following an investigation that involved sifting through 230,000 fingerprints.
      The sentence by a court in Baiyin, a small city in Gansu Province, was not unexpected in China, which executes more prisoners than any other.

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